Glorious Boy, Aimee Liu
Glorious Boy, Aimee Liu
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Glorious Boy
A Novel

Author: Aimee Liu

Narrator: Cindy Kay

Unabridged: 12 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/15/2020

Synopsis

Glorious Boy is a tale of war and devotion, longing and loss, and the power of love to prevail.

Set in India's remote Andaman Islands before and during WWII, the story revolves around a mysteriously mute four-year-old who vanishes on the eve of Japanese Occupation. Little Ty's parents, Shep and Claire, will go to any lengths to rescue him, but neither is prepared for the brutal and soul-changing odyssey that awaits them.

About Aimee Liu

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 is on the faculty of Goddard College's MFA in creative writing program at Port Townsend, Washington. She lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cari

I loved this book. Still thinking about it several days later. My review will appear in Booklist.......more

Goodreads review by Nita

It's been a long time since I stayed up (nearly) all night to finish a book, but Aimee Liu's Glorious Boy casts that kind of spell. This work of historical fiction set in WWII on the Andaman Islands is brutal, but lovely, and so well written. The imagery, the characters, and the story all mesmerized......more

Goodreads review by Kristen

In this meticulously researched and constructed novel, Liu plums the relationship between emotional resilience and attachment, especially in the context of violent family separation. Her protagonist is a thoughtful and self-aware anthropologist who confronts the worst: being torn from her child by w......more

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