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Off the Books has me on a whirlwind tour. Check out the Events page, and you’ll understand why I’m so sleep-deprived that life’s become a waking dream: the book tour kicked off with six fabulous events in four fabulous states in ten (yup, fabulous) days, and now I’m back on the East Coast and in the classroom and taking the kid to soccer practice and submitting book two to my agent with five more OTB events to go. [Update: Holt/Macmillan has acquired book two! More on that soon…]

Until I get a solid night’s sleep, I’ll probably continue feeling so out-of-body I’m speaking in tongues, which reminds me: if your native tongue happens to be the Uyghur language, please check out my recent interview with Radio Free Asia. If not, here are a few other recent essays, interviews and reviews, all in easy-peasy English:

• Electric Lit
  • Soma Mei Sheng Frazier on the Dangers of Writing About the Uyghur Genocide
• Literary Hub (LitHub)
  • Our “Long-Living Badasses.” Why So Much Asian American Fiction Focuses on Grandparents: Soma Mei Sheng Frazier on America’s Youth-Obsessed Culture
• People Magazine
  • I Want to Talk About Uncle Wallace: Against Chinese American Stoicism (Exclusive)
• The San Francisco Chronicle
  • This beguiling road-trip novel goes off the map in all the best ways…
• The New York Times
  • A Cross-Country Road Trip, with a Hidden Body in the Back Seat (this wonderful book review does not hold back, so if you aim to read Off the Books, wait till you’re done to check it out)

Wait, what? Sandwiched between the usual literary suspects: People Mag? Did you know they had a Books section? I’ll admit that I did not, though I’m now somewhat addicted to it, which makes reading my work in their pages even more surreal. (A quick, nerdy note: I didn’t write the title or subtitle, so if you check out the People essay, please note that its original title is simply “Flowers from Family.”)

Okay, friends, that’s all the news I’ve got for now—except, no, wait. The word “news” reminds me of one more tidbit: looking forward to appearing on Syracuse’s local TV NewsChannel 9 soon. Or maybe that’s just a dream? I’ll let you know once I’ve caught some Z’s.