An Empire of Women by Karen Shepard [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
11 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost
As I read Karen Shepard’s debut novel, An Empire of Women, I couldn’t help thinking if the title was some sort of sarcastic joke, if not a blatant mistake, because the utter...
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