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Author, THE BOX, DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
www.mandysuzannewong.com 🌊
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A mesmerizing & perspective-altering book. Wong’s hypnotic prose challenges us to look differently at ocean life & our relationship with the many quieter species we often take for granted. A love letter to the ocean & an absolute marvel of a book. –Tom Lathan 🙏
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5 months ago
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Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler bring us key selections from Vasily Grossman’s WWII reportage in FROM THE FRONT LINE
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. Some thoughts from me in ASYMPTOTE on their gripping translation from the Russian.
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ANIMAL SPIRAL, a collaborative novel by Luis Othaniel Rosa and colleagues, translated by Katie Marya, is a mind-blowing read. My review is up in ASYMPTOTE.
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Don’t miss the first English translation of celebrated Togolese novelist Sami Tchak, by
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www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/06...
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It's a terrific month for new lit in translation! I'm delighted to have 4 new revs up in ASYMPTOTE: unmissable books from Togo, Senegal, Puerto Rico, & Stalin's Soviet Union. 📚📚
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/06...
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What’s New in Translation: June 2026 - Asymptote Blog
The latest from Germany, Puerto Rico, Togo, Senegal, Russia, Norway, Denmark, Uruguay, South Korea, China, and the Faroe Islands!
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/06/15/whats-new-in-translation-june-2026/
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New York Review Books
21 days ago
"Grossman's remarkable elasticity of perspective sometimes unsettled his editors; in a single article, he could criticize grand ideas while sympathizing intensely with every living being...."
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on Vasily Grossman's war reportage (From the Front Line).
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What’s New in Translation: June 2026 - Asymptote Blog
The latest from Germany, Puerto Rico, Togo, Senegal, Russia, Norway, Denmark, Uruguay, South Korea, China, and the Faroe Islands!
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/06/15/whats-new-in-translation-june-2026/
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THE BOX rears its faceless headless head again at Typewronger Books, Edinburgh, on 27 May 2026 at 7 p.m. BST! Reams of gratitude to
@typewronger.bsky.social
for this opportunity. 🖤📦❄️🐌 Registration is free.
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about 2 months ago
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Two Lines Press
about 2 months ago
Mandy-Suzanne Wong writes that Carvalho's stories collected in AND HOW HAVE YOU BEEN?, in Margaret Jull Costa's translation, "listen in on the unacknowledged suffering of women wasting away in domestic servitude." Read the full review here!
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/05...
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Mandy-Suzanne Wong
Graywolf Press
about 2 months ago
We are thrilled that TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE has been announced as the winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize! Congratulations to author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translator Lin King, and our publishing partners in the UK, And Other Stories 🎉
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My review of Margaret Jull Costa’s pitch-perfect translation of And How Have You Been?, a perceptive collection of short stories by Maria Judite de Carvalho, is up in Asymptote.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/05...
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about 2 months ago
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Elise Myslinski
2 months ago
You won't want to miss today's interview with Kathryn Eddy and
@mandysuzannewong.bsky.social
on their new book, Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl!
#booksky
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Interview: Mandy-Suzanne Wong & Kathryn Eddy
On aquatic invertebrates, artistic advocacy, and rethinking animals
https://myselise.substack.com/p/interview-mandy-suzanne-wong-and
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Kathryn Eddy, illustrator of Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl, is a longtime collaborator, so I'm tentacularly excited about our interview with
@wizardofclaws.bsky.social
. We talk artistic animal advocacy, how to sculpt a jellyfish, & more.
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Thank you so much for engaging with our work, Elise!
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2 months ago
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Belated though it be: so much gratitude to
@orionmagazine.bsky.social
for publishing my little piece about Bermudian cephalopods in their latest issue. It’s a true honor to be part of this publication.
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A Place Beyond Visibility - Orion Magazine
"Beyond this place, was there another into which the squids had vanished?"
https://orionmagazine.org/article/a-place-beyond-visibility/
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Mandy-Suzanne Wong
Two Lines Press
3 months ago
For Asymptote,
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calls the novel, "A story of love in all its capacities, bolstering gentle and perilous political resistance which takes the form of living, warm-blooded ontologies."
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/04...
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What’s New in Translation: April 2026 - Asymptote Blog
New titles from Mexico, Italy, Brazil, South Korea, Chile, Egypt, Cameroon, France, Slovenia, Austria, and Argentina!
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/04/13/whats-new-in-translation-april-2026/
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Two Lines Press
3 months ago
Happy happy publication day to Juliana Leite's EXEMPLARY HUMANS, translated by Zoë Perry!
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Tuesday, 21 Apr, 5 pm EST: Reading with Ida Stewart &
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, hosted by
@williamwoolfitt.bsky.social
for Lee University Writers’ Series. Join us!
@perugiapress.bsky.social
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
@sarabandebooks.bsky.social
Teams link at
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3 months ago
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Two Lines Press
3 months ago
"Affecting, contemplative, and unpretentiously good-humored novel. . . . A story of love in all its capacities, bolstering gentle and perilous political resistance which takes the form of living, warm-blooded ontologies." 💚
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My review of Juliana Leite’s intimate and philosophical novel Exemplary Humans, translated from Portuguese by Zoë Perry, is up in Asymptote!
@twolinespress.com
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Mandy-Suzanne Wong
Perugia Press
3 months ago
On April 21 at 5pm ET, Ida Stewart, Kathryn Nuernberger & Mandy-Suzanne Wong will read for Lee University’s Writer’s Series in a virtual round-robin reading. Teams link at Linktree.
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I’m most grateful to Robert Cowie at University of Hawaii for reading Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl & writing a blurb for it in Tentacle, Newsletter of the IUCN Species Survival Commission's Mollusc Specialist Group. Wow! 🐌🐌🐌
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21 Apr at 5 pm EST, Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl will participate online in a book-to-book convo w HELD by
@katnuernberger.bsky.social
& GLOSS by Ida Stewart. Thanks to
@williamwoolfitt.bsky.social
for the invite!
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
@sarabandebooks.bsky.social
@perugiapress.bsky.social
3 months ago
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A wonderful, heartwarming and empowering event. Huge thanks to Long Story Short, St. George's, for inviting me to read from Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl at Bermuda's HERStory Festival!
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New releases from
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
are 15% off just now at
Bookshop.org
USA thru 29 Apr 2026, including my wee book, Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl.
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I’m so grateful to Long Story Short Bookshop for inviting me to read from Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl at Bermuda’s HERstory Festival next Saturday, 28 March, in St. George! My first reading ever in my wee birth country. Schedule TBA at
www.wrcbermuda.com/events/herst...
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HERstory Women’s History Month Festival — Women's Resource Centre Bermuda
https://www.wrcbermuda.com/events/herstoryfestival2026
4 months ago
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Mark Haber is one of my top literary idols. Some of my best experiments were inspired by his. Every one of his books invites close rereading and re-rereading. So excited for ADA!
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Grateful to Annelie Hyatt & ACCENT ACCENT for this review of Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl: "a work of beauty, imagination, & depth...which suggests that a new code of justice must rely on compassion, instead of identification."
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4 months ago
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My belated but profound thanks to
@literaryhub.bsky.social
for running this excerpt from Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl. 🩵🌊
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Harare Review of Books
5 months ago
My latest for
@thecontinent.org
: on Osvalde Lewat's The Aquatics, tr. by Maren Baudet-Lackner.
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THE AQUATICS, a novel by Cameroonian filmmaker Osvalde Lewat, translated from the French by Maren Baudet-Lackner, is lush, courageous, and disturbing. Some brief thoughts from me on Goodreads and Substack.
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Mandy-Suzanne Wong (@mandysuzannewong)
This novel by Cameroonian filmmaker Osvalde Lewat, translated from the French by Maren Baudet-Lackner, is lush, courageous, and disturbing. The protagonist, who is both highly sensitive and willfully ...
https://substack.com/@mandysuzannewong/note/c-225469810?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2dzqoj
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Barbara J. King
4 months ago
Still thinking about this book, and was so happy to review it,
@mandysuzannewong.bsky.social
!
#books
#Booksky
#naturewriting
#invertebrate
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Thank you so much for this amazing opportunity,
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4 months ago
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“Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl displays radical thinking at its critical heights.” Thank you so much for this shoutout,
@bocaslitfest.bsky.social
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4 months ago
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Geetanjali Shree’s characters and dancing prose are always a delight! Some thoughts from me in ASYMPTOTE on THE ROOF BENEATH THEIR FEET, translated from Hindi by Rahul Soni.
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Next week!
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Urszula Honek’s collection of dark stories, WHITE NIGHTS, translated from the Polish by Kate Webster & longlisted for the Intl Booker Prize, are quietly piercing – & now available to US readers from
@twolinespress.com
. Here’s my review in ASYMPTOTE.
asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/02...
4 months ago
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Stopped by the fabulous
@typewronger.bsky.social
in Edinburgh for the first time today, met the amazing Tee, adopted a wee origami dragon, & bought zines by Heidi Clark plus a book about Raffaella della Olga, who uses typewriters to create brilliant abstract images.
@yalebooks.bsky.social
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It was a pleasure to spend time with AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON – a magnificent documentary novel by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated polyphonically from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney – and to write about it for ASYMPTOTE.
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www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/02...
4 months ago
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I’m delighted as ever to have 3 reviews up in Asymptote’s "What’s New In Translation" column for Feb 2026.
asymptotejournal.com/blog/new-in-...
5 months ago
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Thank you so much
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for featuring Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl in issue 85!
diversishelf.beehiiv.com/p/diversishe...
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Thank you
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for including me in Literary MagNet! It was a lot of fun to talk about some of the great literary magazines I’ve had the honor to work with.
www.pw.org/content/lite...
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@diggingpress.com
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Literary MagNet: Mandy-Suzanne Wong
The prose writer Mandy-Suzanne Wong highlights journals that have published some of her surprising, emotive essays on mollusks including Digging Press Journal and Black Warrior Review.
https://www.pw.org/content/literary_magnet_mandysuzanne_wong
5 months ago
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Batdog
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As the slow poke diver who happily hovers over marine invertebrates while others look for sharks or whatever I can't wait to get a copy of this
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Graywolf Press
5 months ago
Happy pub. day to
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's DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL, seventeen ingenious essays devoted to snails’ and aquatic invertebrates’ uncanny ways of living 🐌🐙🪼🐚 Pick up a copy from your local indie bookstore today!
www.graywolfpress.org/books/daught...
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It’s publication day for Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl!! Huge thanks to Yuka Igarashi for helping it make sense. Thank you, Kathryn, for lending your incredible multitalents to the illustrations. Thank you, Graywolf, for being THE BEST PUBLISHER EVER!! 🐌🦑🐙🐚🪸🌊
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DOMOP is almost here. 🐌 17 Feb 2026
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🌊
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5 months ago
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I’ll have the honor of discussing, at NYU SCRIBE’s Lecture Series, 6 Mar, 4 pm EST on Zoom: Bermuda, books (including Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl & The Box), publishing, elasticizing English, & rethinking “heritage.”
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
Free registration:
engage.nyu.edu/event/12206840
5 months ago
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Ania Szremski at 4Columns calls Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl "fiercely imaginative and poem-like, though technically nonfiction (speculative nonfiction, perhaps?), essays...[that make] sea snails totally present on the page." 🙏
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Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl
https://4columns.org/szremski-ania/daughter-of-mother-of-pearl
5 months ago
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“How might we thread the needle between devising open-ended questions to learn more and filling in the blanks with images generated by a poetical human brain?” Huge thanks to Barbara J. King for this review of Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl!
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Imagining the rich lives of invertebrates
A writer’s evocative meditations invite readers to consider the often-overlooked creatures on their own terms
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec2352
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I’m a guest in the room. “You’re too light” When you cry, coffee has no right to speak hats turn blue. -- "They Leave to Reach Likeness" by Ka Yee Lee Translated from Chinese by Tim Tim Cheng Brilliant poem in
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They Leave to Reach Likeness - Words Without Borders
A series of refusals reflects and refracts notions of family, spirituality, and belongingness in Hong Kong writer Ka Yee Lee’s poem.
https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2026-02/they-leave-to-reach-likeness-lee-cheng/
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"It's February. Weeping, take ink." Boris Pasternak, tr John Stallsworthy & Peter France
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Many thanks to the editors at
@necessaryfiction.com
for the opportunity to review FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, polyphonically translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
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