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Out today: my novella THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR (Subterranean Press), about Ru, a Calcuttan 'boy from nowhere' coming of age in a family who may be migrants from another reality, & Alice, a neighbour from Chinatown he longs to share their secrets with.
You can buy the signed, limited, numbered hardcover edition of THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, with a gorgeous cover painting by Tran Nguyen, here. Ghibli-inflected mythic realism, for adults: https://subterraneanpress.com/tldob/
I was lucky enough to read Jared Pechaček's upcoming debut novel THE WEST PASSAGE (Tordotcom); for anyone looking for fantasy that feels like a miracle, like looking at awful bone-vibrating angels, like living in the dream of a medieval illuminator unmoored from time, *read* this book when it comes out.
And I read it sans the author's stunning illustrations--this will be an awe-inspiring book, in every way. Just look at this (the prose and narrative lives up to the art in every way):
Egyptian writer and artist Deena Mohamed's SHUBEIK LUBEIK is one of the best graphic novels I've read in a while (& ever)--using the conceit of an alt-history where djinns/wishes are commodified to tell a tale of the costs of (a tiny portion of) humanity's ability to get whatever it wants.
Any interested readers can use the code PREORDER25 to get 25% off the hardcover of my upcoming mythic realist novella THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR (Subterranean Press), today and tomorrow for the Barnes and Noble preorder sale at this link:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-last-dragoners-of-bowbazar-indra-das/1143249982
So glad I watched SUZUME on IMAX: absolutely spectacular animation & sound design, as expected from Makoto Shinkai, in service of the kind of mythic-mundane epic (in road trip form, here) he favours, irresistibly weighting the fantasy with hyperreal evocations of our world (& beyond).
For any book reviewers interested, the eArc of my novella THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR (@SubPress@wandering-shop) is now available at NetGalley. It's a mythic realist coming-of-age set in 00s/90s Kolkata, in the vein of Studio Ghibli films (but adult-oriented), following Ru, who realises his family may be migrants from another reality, & Alice, a neighbour from Chinatown he longs to share their secrets with.
Netgalley link: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/285634
