Fixer Chao by Han Ong + Author Profile [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Filipina/o, Filipina/o American, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American
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Han Ong finds it “surprising and shocking and ticklish” that his first book is doing so well. Called an “inventively malevolent debut novel” by the...
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