On this episode, we discuss our December 2020 book club pick, When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon. A YA Rom Com about Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel, who meet at an intensive summer program for aspiring app developers. Dimple is there to chase her dreams, and Rishi is there to chase… Dimple!
Join us for our final mid-month check-in of the year! On this episode, we go over the latest book and publishing news in Asian American literature for December 2020.
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We chat with author Diana Ma about her debut novel Heiress Apparently. A YA romantic comedy about a Chinese American aspiring actor who visits China for the first time for a film and finds out that she’s a dead ringer to one of China’s most popular socialites and may be the descendant of China’s most infamous Empress Regents!
Follow Diana at @DianaJunYiMa and pick up her debut novel Heiress Apparently on sale November 17!
On this episode, we discuss our November 2020 book club pick, Ignite the Starsby Maura Milan. A science fiction YA story about a legendary teenage space pirate who is captured and forced to go to school by her captors.
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A little delayed, but it’s time for our mid-month check-in for November 2020. Join us as we go over the latest book and publishing news in Asian American literature.
Now you can support Books & Boba and Asian American authors by buying books on our bookshop page – https://bookshop.org/shop/booksandboba
On this episode we chat with author Chloe Gong about her debut novel These Violent Delights. A fresh take on the classic tale of Romeo & Juliet set in 1920’s Shanghai, it’s a story of ex-lovers on opposite sides of a blood feud during a time of major cultural and political change in China.
Follow Chloe at @thechloegong and pick up her debut novel These Violent Delights on sale November 17!
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