Empire of Glass by Kaitlin Solimine

By Kaitlin Solimine

"A portrait of a soul,"--Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, finalist for the nationwide publication Award
In the mid-1990s, an American youngster, named Lao ok in chinese language, stands on Coal Hill, a park in Beijing, a loop of rope in her hand. Will she support her chinese language homestay mom, Li-Ming, who's death of melanoma, in finishing her lifestyles, or will she opt for one other course? two decades later, Lao okay gets a e-book written through Li-Ming referred to as "Empire of Glass," a story that chronicles the lives of Li-Ming and her husband, Wang, in pre and post-revolutionary China over the past half the 20 th century. Lao okay starts off translating the tale, which turns into the unconventional we're interpreting. yet, as translator, how can Lao ok separate truth from fiction, and what is going to her position be within the book's ultimate chapter?
A grand, experimental epic--Lao K's tale is advised in footnotes that run in the course of the book--that chronicles the seismic adjustments in China during the last part century in the course of the lens of 1 family's studies, Empire of Glass is an research into the workings of human reminiscence and the veracity of oral heritage that pushes the bounds of language and shape in beautiful and unforgettable ways.
Kaitlin Solimine has been a Fulbright Fellow in China, and has bought numerous scholarships, awards, and residencies for her writing, together with the 2012 Dzanc Books/Disquiet foreign Literary application award for an previous draft of Empire of Glass, judged by way of Colson Whitehead. Her fiction has been released in GuernicaKartika Review, and various anthologies. Kaitlin is co-founder of Hippo Reads, a community connecting educational insights and students to the broader public. She is living in San Francisco together with her husband and daughter, the place she used to be a 2016 SF Grotto Writing Fellow and is affiliate manufacturer of the childbirth documentary, Of lady Born.

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