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Lydia Kwa: Lydia Kwa is a writer and psychologist. She is the author of the novels This Place Called Absence (Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award finalist), The Walking Boy (Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize finalist), and Pulse, as well as two books of poetry, The Colours of Heroines and sinuous.
A beautiful and moving dream of old Chang'an, deliciously and fully conceived. Wide-awake to Chinese imperial history, traditional storytelling, kung-fu movies, and TCM, this novel is a must-read from a brilliant contemporary novelist. --Larissa Lai, author of When Fox is a Thousand and Salt Fish Girl In Oracle Bone, Lydia Kwa creates a transfixing narrative that bears the intimate familiarity of a dream with the grandeur of a historical epic. Her prose has the precision of fine embroidery, honing in on small moments and making delicate connections to deliver a wondrous world where magic is possible. --Doretta Lau, author of How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? Collating a narrative of love, magic, power, and tradition Kwa performs an oracular story divining her way through a supernatural world of hybrid animas and shapeshifters to reveal adjacent truths of consciousness we usually only intuit. Oracle Bone is a poignant reminder that the imagination is real and its stories are crucial to an understanding of how we desire our world. --Fred Wah, Canada's former Parliamentary Poet Laureate
