We have 2 hardcovers of River East, River West (signed!) that we will be giving away. The hardcopy is no longer available in most places as now the paperback is out, so these are a rare commodity🥳🥳 Thanks for all the support Make sure you: ➡️Share 💬Comment ❤️Like ✅Follow us

Until Sep 2, Barnes and Noble Barnes & Noble is running a Fiction Favorites half-price sale: River East, River West and lots of other beautiful hardcovers for $15 each. Never a better time to stock up for yourself or for the holidays (I know it's August!!) barnesandnoble.com/w/river-east-r…

For our October Masters’ Series course, Jess, Dan Sinykin, Andre Banks, Kathleen Schmidt, & Sonya Chung will teach practical strategies for literary publicity: from attracting the attention of an audience to what publicity entails on an daily level. offassignment.com/shop/literary-…

This is such a wise, wistful essay by @sierramurdoch—pleased to have played a small role.

So proud today to publish this "What I Didn't Say" essay by @SierraMurdoch, Pulitzer finalist and author of YELLOW BIRD, about her time at a mysterious Tunis hotel while reporting on the Arab Spring. Thank you to guest editor Ted Conover & Nat'l Endow f/t Arts always: offassignment.com/wids/sierra-cr…

"The smile on her face lights up a room," Doshia says of her daughter. And then, one drug screen later, Selah was taken. Doshia's not alone: tens of thousands of mothers are coming under scrutiny because of marijuana use. My latest Rolling Stone rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

Also read our most recent piece of criticism in #TheMargins, in which Lavinia Liang examines narratives of return in Asian American fiction, such as Ling Ma's SEVERANCE and Aube Rey Lescure's RIVER EAST, RIVER WEST. 🌊🦋 aaww.org/go-back-to-chi…

Headed to the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2024 later this month and honored to be in such inspiring company. Writer/reader friends, add this festival to you list for its stellar celebration of literature, journalism, and arts from Asia and beyond! See you in Indonesia 🇮🇩

Come join the accomplished French-Chinese-American writer, Aube Rey Lescure’s sessions, namely River East, River West on; where she discuss her novel, compelling personal essays, and her process of writing about place and identity. Click ➡️ ubudwritersfestival.com/speakers/aube-…

River East, River West is a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Award— so grateful for this honor, and to be in the company of writers I deeply respect. Congratulations all!!! Morgan Talty Crystal Hana Kim | 김하나 @jamelbrinkley &Aisha Abdel Gawad kclibrary.org/news/2024-10/2…

The #AngelouBoomAward reading committee has selected five finalists for the 4th annual national award, which is presented by the Kansas City Public Library, UMKC , and five other Missouri universities! Learn more: tinyurl.com/3z2fzhys

River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure (HarperCollins) is a family drama about 2 generations in China: the young, married man Lu Fang in 1985 & 14-year-old Alva in 2007. It's 1 of 5 #AngelouBookAward finalists presented by the Library, UMKC & 5 other MO universities! 1/2

This essay by Lucy Schiller for Off Assignment is off-the-rails good and was a delight to edit. Bug lovers, maximalists, Nabokovian net-swingers, nature historians, existentialist philosophers, highway shirkers, Provençal spécialistes, head on over: offassignment.com/noequivalent/l…

SHORTLISTED for the 2025 Viking Fiction with a Sense of Place Award, ‘River East, River West’ by Aube Rey Lescure Duckworth Books Duckworth Books Set in: China, Qingdao, Shanghai stanfords.co.uk/river-east-riv…

A very special essay out today with Granta. It’s about worship, China, patterns, food deliveries, burials, divinations, gorges, moths, padded bras, and silk worms. To see how it all connects, please give this a read and share🙏 granta.com/the-secret-pat…

Thank you to The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for selecting River East, River West for the longlist--look at this glorious company!!

Launching our new Off Assignment column, "Goodbye to that Place," with this stunner of an essay by Leslie Jamison. Please read: short & oh-so-powerful. Writers, if you have your own narrative farewell to a bygone place--start drafting, we'd love to read it. offassignment.com/gttp/leslie-ja…

Congratulations to Aube Rey Lescure, whose novel RIVER EAST, RIVER WEST has been shortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Aube’s blurb was the first I received for THE SCRAPBOOK, and I will be forever grateful! Aube Rey Lescure