An excerpt from Lu Han’s novel-in-progress, The Rusticated, has been published by The Adroit Journal. It can be found here: https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-nine/lu-han/
The Rusticated tells the story of Ling, a young girl in northeast China at the start of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. Strong-willed and resourceful, Ling navigates a violent childhood in which she strives to protect her younger sister, Lan, from their father’s trip-wire rage. When Lan is swept up in revolutionary zeal and radicalized, Ling must confront a new reality, not only of a society turned upside-down, but one in which the person she sought most to protect becomes their family’s greatest threat.
The Adroit Journal, which was founded in 2010 to showcase emerging writers, has also named Lu as one of its six Anthony Veasna So Scholars in Fiction. Together with its Gregory Djanikian Scholars in Poetry, the Journal selected twelve of the most “exciting emerging poets and fiction writers we should all be watching” out of more than 1,200 entrants. Djanikian and Veasna So Scholars receive stipends and publication.
Geoffrey Dutton’s novel, Her Own Devices, has been published by Guernica Editions and went on sale September first.
A sequel to his previous novel, Turkey Shoot, Her Own Devices is an international thriller tells the tale of a Swiss expat with an energetic five-year-old son who witnesses a kidnapping in gritty Piraeus, Greece, and vows to put the culprit, his swaggering partner, and the cop protecting them, out of business, relying on home-brew surveillance devices and a loose coalition of allies.
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