Okay I did the substack thing open.substack.com/pub/karissac...

Columbia protests live updates: University calls in New York police after library takeover www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I made a playlist of all the musical pieces/songs mentioned in HOMESEEKING! In case you wanted a soundtrack. m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Our Literary Thursdays series continues with @karissachen.bsky.social, the author of "Homeseeking." Join us on April 24 at 6PM! queenslibrary.org/calendar/lit...

Omg episode 6 of When Life Gives You Tangerines: I have not cried that hard while watching anything in a long time. I cannot watch narratives like this now I have a child!!

Our virtual Literary Thursdays series brings you live conversations with amazing writers. Learn More about our April guests: Andrew Hui, @librarianjones.com, Melissa Mogollon, and @karissachen.bsky.social! queenslibrary.org/calendar?sea... #NationalLibraryWeek

Episode 342E is here! Karissa Chen discusses HOMESEEKING, a tale of one couple across sixty years, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland. @karissachen.bsky.social @prhlibrary.bsky.social turnthepage.blubrry.net/2025/03/20/t...

Day 61 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: @karissachen.bsky.social wants to meltdown mailchi.mp/b210cfb4bc0f... @writingco-lab.bsky.social

I have not had more than 2 days in a row of health since I got back from the states Thanks, toddler! 😩

Baby has norovirus and has been vomitting all day. Send prayers that I somehow miraculous avoid catching it even though he has vomited on me and then wanted to be held to sleep with his face breathing directly into mine

Going through my baby's newborn stuff to sell / giveaway and 😭 why am I having a hard time letting go of these tiny clothes !!

Was NOT prepared for how 💔 I'd feel to hear an older kid yell at my toddler, "You can't play with me!" Baby had been excitedly chasing a remote control car this kid and other older kids were playing w in the playground. The 6 yr old stopped baby and said "*You're* not allowed to chase it!"

It is terrible when you have fixed your jetlag but your toddler has not 😩 Signed, a former night owl and mom of a toddler who has woken up for the last week at 2am, 3:30am, 4:30am, 5:30am and FINALLY TODAY at 6am

My 2 year old is learning his numbers and alphabet and every day he points to 0s and Os asking me "zero? O? Zero? O?" And while I explain that it's a zero when it's a number but an O when it's a letter, I realize this is the beginning of a lot of absurd language things I'm going to have to explain

Having listened to Baby Shark now hundreds and hundreds of times, I must say that the surprise POV change in the second to last verse is quite genius. We spend the entire song following the sharks, in their POV, meeting the whole family, going hunting with them...

Have arrived back in Taiwan and can feel my papery skin rehydrating, like dried fruit plopped into water

My child has his last day of temporary preschool today and his teachers cried when he left. He was like, meh. Then at 9 pm he wanted to go find his preschool teacher and started sobbing when we reminded him we had said goodbye already. The whole thing broke my heart 😭

I opened a new bottle of gorilla super glue to glue back together my kid's brand new vehicle toy he broke and it exploded over my hand and now I guess I have to live with hard scabs of glue over my fingers til my epidermis decides to shed itself

VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION: do brontosauruses no longer exist? Have the names of dinosaurs changed from the 1980s? signed, mom of a dinosaur obsessed toddler

Finished my last tour event a couple days ago and now get to bask in the glory of running around in circles with my toddler while listening to Baby Shark at 1.5x speed. It's been a crazy, amazing couple of weeks and I am so grateful. But also happy to be home.

Happy to see Taipei at Daybreak come up here in this list of this month's Asian American literature at Mochi Mag, along with @karissachen.bsky.social's Homecoming!

My photos memories cruelly showing me how 4 years ago, I bought a bottle of champagne and toasted that fucker's departure from the WH and cried with relief. I can't fking believe he's back, like a fucking roach

I just finished Homeseeking by @karissachen.bsky.social and it’s one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. A very moving, beautiful novel. #BookSky

The menace ends birthright citizenship by EO. Not likely to stand, but among other EOs today, he's attacking all BIPOC. #wongkimark

The fact that TikTok is actively thanking Trump on their app now is all the reason I need to never use that app

Ahem I was on live television this morning (still trying to wrap my head around it). Yes that's me I. @goodmorningamerica.bsky.social ! abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/...

Every time I use an airport bathroom I think to myself why the hell the doors don't open outwards. Trying to maneuver luggage into those tiny stalls makes me feel like I'm moving furniture

Me, a Chinese speaker, side eyeing the jump from TikTok to RedNote, Chinese name 小紅書

Check out these new #fiction books on this #NewTitleTuesday. 📚 We have new books by @karissachen.bsky.social, #KateFagan, #JonathanEvison, #SarahAdams, #DanielleSteel, and #FionaDavis. Link below! 📎👇 oceancitylibrary.org #OCFPL #OceanCityLibrary #NJLibrary #OceanCityNJ #OCNJ

As I was leaving security, the woman who had checked my bag (bc my Japanese snacks somehow flagged the system) checked another bag and called for her supervisor, saying "Hey we have something here flagged as high alert" or maybe she said "high danger" and I was like 😳 and ran away

I just read the Neil Gaiman article right before bed and....yiiiikkkeeesss that was way worse than I had even imagined

“What set this book apart is that I cared enough about it to really see it through.” @karissachen.bsky.social discusses the publication of her novel Homeseeking for The Rumpus original column The First Book. Read the full interview at https://buff.ly/40uBwnS

Celebrating @karissachen.bsky.social and her book HOMESEEKING at @booksonthepark.bsky.social last night!

Our first podcast conversation of 2025 is with @karissachen.bsky.social, author of HOMESEEKING (@putnambooks.bsky.social)! Listen to her chat about exploring lost love in her sweeping historical debut book! 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... 🔊 open.spotify.com/episode/1qWu...

HOMESEEKING is amazing and everyone needs to read it!!!!

& if you’re not already following these writers, you can find them here: @imaniperry.bsky.social @karissachen.bsky.social @scaachi.bsky.social @silviapark.bsky.social @lailalalami.com @erikatwurth.bsky.social @katiekitamura.bsky.social @thebestjasmine.bsky.social @thedennemichele.bsky.social

You can get these debut books RIGHT NOW at your favorite indie bookstore! Or check out Debutiful Dot Net to purchase and learn more about them! debutiful.net/2025/01/06/1... @karissachen.bsky.social @coletteshade.bsky.social @katefagan.bsky.social @putnambooks.bsky.social @atriabooks.bsky.social

I published a book! It is the January GMA book club pick! I am on tour! I am tired! I am grateful! I need caffeine!

Happy book birthday to @karissachen.bsky.social and HOMESEEKING. Karissa is the writing buddy (and friend) I've known the longest. I've seen HOMESEEKING from its early drafts. Friends, you'll love it. bookshop.org/p/books/home...

Huge fucking mazel tov to @karissachen.bsky.social on release day for HOMESEEKING! Go buy it!

Happy pub day to @karissachen.bsky.social! Here's a link to order her book, which I can't wait to read! bookshop.org/p/books/home...

Happy pub day, @karissachen.bsky.social! Karissa is a beautiful human who was there for me during a bleak time in my life and that talented heart has written an epic love story!!!!

Ahhhhh!!!!! Congratulations & happy pub day to @karissachen.bsky.social, Jan’s @goodmorningamerica.bsky.social Book Club pick! So amazed by my brilliant bff! Her nationwide tour for HOMESEEKING kicks off tonight in NYC via Yu and Me Books at New Design High Seward Park Campus Library 350 Grand St.!

Happy Pub Day to Homeseeking and congratulations to @karissachen.bsky.social on her debut novel being selected as the Good Morning America Book Club January pick! Chen and @vanessahua.bsky.social join us here on Friday. Details in the thread. www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/stor...

Huge pub day congrats to Franklin Park Reading Series stars Adam Haslett, @karissachen.bsky.social, Irvin Weathersby Jr., and @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social! Join us at Franklin Park on Monday to see Irvin and Kevin in person!

Sleepless bc tomorrow is my book launch. I need sleep! Why can't I sleep???

My novel BIG CHIEF is one of Goodreads Hottest, yes, Hottest Debut Novels of 2025! Some serious names here including HOMESEEKING by @karissachen.bsky.social and THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER BY @jemmawei.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/blog/show/28...

I can't believe I'm gonna be a published author in TWO DAYS!

SF Bay Area folks, I will be coming soon!!

Fabulous review of @karissachen.bsky.social's HOMESEEKING by Alexis Burling. Join us for our event with Chen and @vanessahua.bsky.social one week from today, Friday, Jan. 10! Details in the thread. datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/kariss...