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Thank you so much for this amazing opportunity, @pw.org!
“Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl displays radical thinking at its critical heights.”
Thank you so much for this shoutout, @bocaslitfest.bsky.social! @graywolfpress.bsky.social
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Geetanjali Shree’s characters and dancing prose are always a delight! Some thoughts from me in ASYMPTOTE on THE ROOF BENEATH THEIR FEET, translated from Hindi by Rahul Soni. @andotherstories.bsky.social
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Next week!
Urszula Honek’s collection of dark stories, WHITE NIGHTS, translated from the Polish by Kate Webster & longlisted for the Intl Booker Prize, are quietly piercing – & now available to US readers from @twolinespress.com. Here’s my review in ASYMPTOTE.
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Stopped by the fabulous @typewronger.bsky.social in Edinburgh for the first time today, met the amazing Tee, adopted a wee origami dragon, & bought zines by Heidi Clark plus a book about Raffaella della Olga, who uses typewriters to create brilliant abstract images. @yalebooks.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to spend time with AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON – a magnificent documentary novel by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated polyphonically from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney – and to write about it for ASYMPTOTE. @graywolfpress.bsky.social
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I’m delighted as ever to have 3 reviews up in Asymptote’s "What’s New In Translation" column for Feb 2026.
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Thank you so much @diversishelf.bsky.social for featuring Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl in issue 85!
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Thank you @pw.org for including me in Literary MagNet! It was a lot of fun to talk about some of the great literary magazines I’ve had the honor to work with.
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As the slow poke diver who happily hovers over marine invertebrates while others look for sharks or whatever I can't wait to get a copy of this
![“Mesmerizing. . . . Relentlessly empathetic, these essays reframe nonhuman beings as individuals worthy of respect. Readers will be moved.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“A passionate paean to life’s wonders.”
—KIRKUS
“[Mandy-Suzanne Wong] has made sea snails totally present on the page, magically uncurling their opaque inner worlds, making them resonant subjects of marvel and love. . . . Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl is up there with some of my favorite animal writing of the past decade.”—Ania Szremski, 4COLUMNS
“Wong’s investigations undulate, beckoning an embrace of the unknowable, and with it a call to better coexistence.”—ORION](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2dvcxog5z5vkps6l2rekxmh3/bafkreifehxq6m4cvojmevp444wbwoi3n2sznfu62hsoprrjacn3nwubpte)
“Mesmerizing. . . . Relentlessly empathetic, these essays reframe nonhuman beings as individuals worthy of respect. Readers will be moved.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “A passionate paean to life’s wonders.” —KIRKUS “[Mandy-Suzanne Wong] has made sea snails totally present on the page, magically uncurling their opaque inner worlds, making them resonant subjects of marvel and love. . . . Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl is up there with some of my favorite animal writing of the past decade.”—Ania Szremski, 4COLUMNS “Wong’s investigations undulate, beckoning an embrace of the unknowable, and with it a call to better coexistence.”—ORION
The cover of Mandy-Suzanne Wong's "Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl" shows a photographic collage of sea life, with an ocean-blue rectangle in the center with the title and author's name.
Happy pub. day to @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social's DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL, seventeen ingenious essays devoted to snails’ and aquatic invertebrates’ uncanny ways of living 🐌🐙🪼🐚 Pick up a copy from your local indie bookstore today!
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It’s publication day for Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl!! Huge thanks to Yuka Igarashi for helping it make sense. Thank you, Kathryn, for lending your incredible multitalents to the illustrations. Thank you, Graywolf, for being THE BEST PUBLISHER EVER!!
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DOMOP is almost here. 🐌 17 Feb 2026 @graywolfpress.bsky.social 🌊
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I’ll have the honor of discussing, at NYU SCRIBE’s Lecture Series, 6 Mar, 4 pm EST on Zoom: Bermuda, books (including Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl & The Box), publishing, elasticizing English, & rethinking “heritage.” @graywolfpress.bsky.social
Free registration: engage.nyu.edu/event/12206840
Ania Szremski at 4Columns calls Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl "fiercely imaginative and poem-like, though technically nonfiction (speculative nonfiction, perhaps?), essays...[that make] sea snails totally present on the page."
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“How might we thread the needle between devising open-ended questions to learn more and filling in the blanks with images generated by a poetical human brain?”
Huge thanks to Barbara J. King for this review of Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl!
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
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I’m a guest in the room. “You’re too light”
When you cry, coffee has no right to speak
hats turn blue.
-- "They Leave to Reach Likeness" by Ka Yee Lee
Translated from Chinese by Tim Tim Cheng
Brilliant poem in @wwborders.bsky.social
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"It's February. Weeping, take ink."
Boris Pasternak,
tr John Stallsworthy & Peter France
Many thanks to the editors at @necessaryfiction.com for the opportunity to review FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, polyphonically translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer @graywolfpress.bsky.social
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FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, tr Natasha Wimmer (@graywolfpress.bsky.social). Reviewed by @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/fals...
As blissfully solitary as writing can be, collaborative writing can also be a total blast, given the right word-dance partner and venue. I’m privileged to have found both. Thank you @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for featuring our work!
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"I don’t believe the authors mean a Jekyll-and-Hyde situation or multiple personalities elbowing one another out of the driver’s seat... I rather think they are envisioning one animal, one starfish, simultaneously living many lives." — @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social longreads.com/2026/02/05/m...
“Radically reimagining the ideal of 'the self' through coexistence with other species...to cherish the many other life forms while knowing we will never fully understand them.”
What an honor for Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl! Thank you @electricliterature.com! @graywolfpress.bsky.social
A thousand thanks to the editors of @longreads.com ads for publishing "The Endless Self," an excerpt from Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl, which comes out on 17 Feb from @graywolfpress.bsky.social ess.
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Awesome to see Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl recommended for SoCal’s TBR piles!
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Very excited for these releases! Look out for my review of @criveragarza.bsky.social 's AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON in Asymptote, coming soon.
Under Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s gaze, small uncharismatic invertebrates become heroes of our fragile ecology…This is a book to be savored slowly.
–Maria Reva, author of ENDLING
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
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A mesmerizing & perspective-altering book. Wong’s hypnotic prose challenges us to look differently at ocean life & our relationship with the many quieter species we often take for granted. A love letter to the ocean & an absolute marvel of a book.
–Tom Lathan 🙏
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Kou Machida is a punk rocker—his discography includes 10 albums. He published a volume of poetry in 1992 and a novel in 1996. He won the 2000 Akutagawa Prize for Rip It Up. Machida's writing has been compared to rakugo story-telling and to the work of early 20th century self-destructive I-novelists.