· This was the journey I took in Locke , guided by the masterful storytelling of Shawna Yang Ryan. The pages are filled with Chinese folklore, moving flashbacks, and a vivid attention to detail. The narrow streets lined with Old West-style wooden buildings harbor lost souls, broken dreams, and the possibility of ghosts. Shawna Yang Ryan explores a unique Chinese American haunting in her debut novel Locke Ryan’s work can be taken as a response to Amy Tan’s departure from Kingston beyond the domain of Chinese America in her novel Saving Fish from Drowning (), in which the Chinese American ghost tradition is turned into aAuthor: Chia-rong Wu. The novel takes place in the Sacramento Delta in and employs magical realism to address the trauma that harsh immigration laws enacted upon early Chinese American communities. The novel also confronts the topics of race, gender, sexuality, and class that .
Locke, California, Three bedraggled Chinese women appear out of the mist in a small Chinese farming town on the Sacramento River. Two are unknown to its residents, while the third is the long-lost wife of Richard Fong, the handsome manager of the local gambling parlor. Shawna Yang Ryan, portraits each character beautifully. I. Shawna Yang Ryan's melodic first novel is a passionate, sophisticated intertwining of fact and fiction that examines mingling cultures, modern myths, and forgotten history. Locke beautifully chronicles separation and betrayal, loneliness and longing, and what happens when a Chinese ghost story begins to come true. Genre: Literary Fiction. in Shawna Yang Ryan's Locke By Chia-Rong Wu Since the publication of Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior in , ghost storytelling has become a notable trend in Chinese American literature. Decades later, the ghost narrative established by Kingston still surfaces in Chinese American writing, often connected with the idea of return.
Ryan's debut novel was Water Ghosts, initially published in by a small press in Berkeley known as El Leon Literary Arts under the title Locke In , about half a year after the novel was initially released, a blog called Shelf Awareness gave the book a positive review, which a literary agent read and contacted Ryan about, eventually signing her and selling the book to Penguin Press. [2]. The novel takes place in the Sacramento Delta in and employs magical realism to address the trauma that harsh immigration laws enacted upon early Chinese American communities. The novel also confronts the topics of race, gender, sexuality, and class that are embedded in the design and effects of such laws. Shawna Yang Ryan explores a unique Chinese American haunting in her debut novel Locke Ryan’s work can be taken as a response to Amy Tan’s departure from Kingston beyond the domain of Chinese America in her novel Saving Fish from Drowning (), in which the Chinese American ghost tradition is turned into a.
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