We’re excited about American Symphony by Suiyi Tang!
Read all about it at: The Accomplices
American Symphony: Other White Lies is an existential travelogue that reminds me just how much the hyper-conscious 21st-century self sometimes longs for abandonment; if only we could unshackle ourselves from the conditions of our era, our origins, even our memories. Tang’s prose is at once futuristic yet nostalgic, deeply interior yet fantastical, and freely associative in search of its own set of truths. The worlds Tang has built linger, and their insistent weight is sure to incite revelations big and small.”
– Grace Shuyi Liew, author of Careen
“You see,” the difficult conversation would begin, “I am actually a flower.” Check out Bloom, an excerpt from the book at: Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Find more excerpts from her book at Cardiff Review & at The Offing Mag
Suiyi Tang’s American Symphony: Other White Lies is a polyphonic work that shatters genre boundaries and subverts our ideas of the singular “self” or the singular voice. It contains multitudes, each dynamic sentence twisting blade-deep. It’s truly symphonic: at once lyrical and essayistic, humorous and visceral, this novel will rearrange your insides. It’s unrelenting and immersive and peppered with breathless moments of language (“she was much too buoyant to be buried.”) I was lost and found in the span of these pages.”
– K-Ming Chang, author of Past Lives, Future Bodies
