![]() ![]() When I submitted the first draft of the book as my master's thesis, I also submitted a mix-tape soundtrack (on cassette!) to each of my advisors, but my own copy (and my tape player) are long gone, so I had to re-think it, now eight years after the original. In her own words, here is Shawna Yang Ryan's Book Notes music playlist for her debut novel, Water Ghosts:Ĭompiling a soundtrack for Water Ghosts, I have to admit, was a difficult task. Ryan's subtle use of water and ghosts as intertwined motifs of the ancestral is drawn from Chinese myths and deftly crafted, while her vignettes from prior years are seamlessly placed." "As elegant are the ways in which the past reclaims the present. Ryan skillfully melds fact with illusion, the past with the present in a book filled with Chinese-American history. Had I not read the book jacket, I would have never guessed that Water Ghosts was Shawna Yang Ryan's debut novel. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. ![]()
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