Synopsis
"For readers who are unafraid to be swept away." - Booklist, starred review
A World War II story unlike any you've ever read before, with characters and settings you'll never forget.
"The most memorable and original novel I've read... evokes every side in a multi-cultural conversation with sympathy and rare understanding." - Pico Iyer, author of The Art of Stillness
For fans of Michael Ondaatje's Warlight and Lily King's Euphoria...
Glorious Boy is a sweeping tale of war and devotion, longing and loss, and the power of love to prevail.
"Bound by ambition and a sense of adventure, Claire and Shep Durant journey to the Andaman Islands, a remote part of colonial India, in1936. They dive deep into their work: Claire, an anthropologist, is studying the language and customs of the Biya tribe; Shep, a surgeon, is collecting orchid specimens, hoping for significant medicinal applications. Claire's plans change when she becomes pregnant and gives birth to Ty, whose ability to speak never materializes and whose bond to Claire and Shep seems weaker than his attachment to Naila, a household employee. When the war escalates, the Andamans become a target, and the Durants prepare to evacuate-but Ty goes missing. Against her will, Claire goes on without her son and husband. The search for Ty is fraught with more danger than Shep could have ever imagined, and Claire must figure out how she can help from her new post in Calcutta. As the war churns on and hope dwindles, the entire family--biological and otherwise--will be forced to question their allegiances and obligations, and to determine what place is, for them, truly home." - Margo Littell, The Seattle Review
About the Author
Aimee Liu is the bestselling author of the novels Flash House, Cloud Mountain, and Face and the memoirs Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders and Solitaire. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, published as a Literary Guild Super Release, and serialized in Good Housekeeping. She's received a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, a Bosque Fiction Prize, and special mention by the Pushcart Prize. Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, Poets & Writers, and many other periodicals and anthologies. A past president of the national literary organization PEN Center USA, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College and taught in Goddard College's MFA in Creative Writing Program for many years. She lives in Los Angeles. More at aimeeliu.net
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