“I hope that people find this a hopeful story, because that’s ultimately what I want it to be.” In this Penguin Random House video, Eve J. Chung discusses her debut novel, Daughters of Shandong (Berkley, 2024), and how it was inspired by her grandmother who lived through the Chinese Civil War.
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