Mandy-Suzanne Wong
@mandysuzannewong.bsky.social
Author, THE BOX, DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL @graywolfpress.bsky.social www.mandysuzannewong.com 🌊
Still catching up with the endlessly fleeing scroll… What’s that wee blue book I see turned out at Typewronger’s 10 July grand reopening at Bruntsfield Links? The Box was somewhere around, too. Thanks for giving snaily books a home! @graywolfpress.bsky.social
Catching up on social media after a break… A very warm thank you to Kristin White at Long Story Short and Mikaela Ian Pearman at Bermuda’s Royal Gazette for including Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl in their Ultimate Summer Reading List! @graywolfpress.bsky.social www.royalgazette.com/arts-enterta...
Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl is "starry with devotion, decked out in scientific nomenclature so specific it feels like its own love language...Every part of this book astonishes." Shivanee Ramlochan, CARIBBEAN BEAT @novelniche.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social 🙏💙🏝️ shorturl.at/qR6Av
Book buzz | Reviews (Jul/Aug 2026) | Caribbean Beat Magazine
This month’s reading picks from the Caribbean, with reviews by Shivanee Ramlochan of The Pugilist and the Sailor by Nadia Ragbar; Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl by Mandy-Suzanne Wong; P FKN R: How Bad Bu...
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Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler bring us key selections from Vasily Grossman’s WWII reportage in FROM THE FRONT LINE @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. Some thoughts from me in ASYMPTOTE on their gripping translation from the Russian. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/06...
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. @charcopress.com www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/06...
Don’t miss the first English translation of celebrated Togolese novelist Sami Tchak, by @jmz.bsky.social! Such wonderful work. My thoughts in Asymptote Journal: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/06...
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...
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!
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"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...." @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social on Vasily Grossman's war reportage (From the Front Line).
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!
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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. @graywolfpress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
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...
What’s New in Translation: May 2026 - Asymptote Blog
New work from Brazil, Portugal, Tunisia, Cuba, France, China, Japan, Czechia, Norway, Sweden, Spain, and Romania!
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Mandy-Suzanne Wong@mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 5mo agoMy 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... @twolinespress.com
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 🎉 thebookerprizes.com/internationa...
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... @twolinespress.com
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 #vegan #animalliberation
Interview: Mandy-Suzanne Wong & Kathryn Eddy
On aquatic invertebrates, artistic advocacy, and rethinking animals
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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. @graywolfpress.bsky.social myselise.substack.com/p/interview-...
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. @graywolfpress.bsky.social orionmagazine.org/article/a-pl...
A Place Beyond Visibility - Orion Magazine
"Beyond this place, was there another into which the squids had vanished?"
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For Asymptote, @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social 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...
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!
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Happy happy publication day to Juliana Leite's EXEMPLARY HUMANS, translated by Zoë Perry! www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/e...
Tuesday, 21 Apr, 5 pm EST: Reading with Ida Stewart & @katnuernberger.bsky.social, hosted by @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social for Lee University Writers’ Series. Join us! @perugiapress.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social @sarabandebooks.bsky.social Teams link at www.mandysuzannewong.com/events
"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." 💚
Mandy-Suzanne Wong@mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 6mo agoMy review of Juliana Leite’s intimate and philosophical novel Exemplary Humans, translated from Portuguese by Zoë Perry, is up in Asymptote! @twolinespress.com asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/04...
My review of Juliana Leite’s intimate and philosophical novel Exemplary Humans, translated from Portuguese by Zoë Perry, is up in Asymptote! @twolinespress.com asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/04...
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. @idastewart.bsky.social @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social @katnuernberger.bsky.social @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social
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! 🐌🐌🐌 @graywolfpress.bsky.social www.hawaii.edu/cowielab/Ten...
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
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! @graywolfpress.bsky.social
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. bookshop.org/lists/new-bo...
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.... @graywolfpress.bsky.social
HERstory Women’s History Month Festival — Women's Resource Centre Bermuda
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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!
Coffee House Press@coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 7mo agoHappy #IndiePressMonth! No one loves indie presses more than former bookseller, and writer Mark Haber, who has published all four of his novels here at Coffee House Press. ADA (out July 14, 2026) is available for preorder right here: coffeehousepress.org/products/ada
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." @graywolfpress.bsky.social magazine.accentaccent.com/posts/review...
My belated but profound thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for running this excerpt from Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl. 🩵🌊 @graywolfpress.bsky.social
Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 7mo ago“Her shell is her way of feeling and saying it: mother-of-pearl, daughter of water.” The secret life of the awabi abalone.