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For more details or to schedule an interview, email Ashley Fortier<\/a> or call 438-338-4591<\/p>\n

Download a one-page PDF press kit.<\/a><\/p>\n

About the Author<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Addie Tsai<\/a> teaches courses in literature, creative writing, dance, and humanities at Houston Community College. She collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein<\/em> and Camille Claudel<\/em>, among others. Addie holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in Dance from Texas Woman\u2019s University. Her writing has been published in Banango Street<\/em>, The Offing<\/em>, The Collagist<\/em>, The Feminist Wire<\/em>, Nat. Brut.<\/em>, and elsewhere. She is the Nonfiction Editor at The Grief Diaries<\/em> and Senior Associate Editor in Poetry at The Flexible Persona<\/em>.<\/p>\n

About the Book<\/h3>\n

Poppy wants to go to college like everyone else, but her father has other ideas. Ever since her mirror twin sister, Lola, mysteriously vanished, Poppy\u2019s father has been depressed and forces her to stick around. She hopes she can convince Lola to come home, and perhaps also procure her freedom, by sending her twin a series of eighteen letters, one for each year of their lives.<\/p>\n

When not excavating childhood memories, Poppy is sneaking away with her girlfriend Juniper, the only person who understands her. But negotiating the complexities of queer love and childhood trauma are anything but simple. And as a twin? That\u2019s a whole different story.<\/p>\n

In the Press<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Montreal Review of Books<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Lambda Literary<\/a><\/p>\n

Coachella Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

We Need Diverse Books<\/a><\/p>\n

The Puritan<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Specs<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Title<\/strong>: Dear Twin
\nAuthor<\/strong>: Addie Tsai
\nTrim size<\/strong>: 5.25\u2032 x 8\u2032
\nFormat<\/strong>: Paperback
\nSeason<\/strong>: Fall 2019
\nPub date<\/strong>: November 15, 2019
\nPrice<\/strong>: $18.95
\nISBN<\/strong>: 978-1-9990588-0-7 (paperback)
\nCategory<\/strong>: Fiction, young adult
\nTarget Audience<\/strong>: identical twins, queers, people with family trauma<\/p>\n

Market<\/strong><\/h3>\n

keywords<\/strong>: Asian Diaspora Literature, Coming of Age, Family\/Relationships, LGBT, New Adult Fiction, First fiction<\/p>\n

Quotable quote<\/strong>: \u201cShe tried to explain. It wasn\u2019t about trust. It was about twins.\u201d<\/p>\n

See for comparison:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ll Give You the Sun<\/i> by Jandy Nelson, ISBN: 978-0-1424257-6-3<\/p>\n

Advance Praise<\/strong><\/h3>\n

“In DEAR TWIN, debut novelist Addie Tsai offers readers a trenchant, unflinchingly honest, and startlingly funny emotional roller coaster that takes us deep beneath the surface of a young queer woman of colour’s life – and into the complexities of intimate violence in its many forms. DEAR TWIN explores the meanings of childhood, siblinghood, sexuality and survivorhood, defying reader expectations and rejecting simple binaries every step of the way. This book is a loving subversion of the YA genre. Read it and feel your heart crack open in all the best ways.” \u2014Kai Cheng Thom, author of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir<\/i><\/p>\n

“DEAR TWIN is the most terrifying book I\u2019ve read in years. Addie Tsai has rendered a world blisteringly similar to the one we live in where acceptance of one\u2019s biography and queerness does not come easy. DEAR TWIN is the story of twins, the story of desire, the story of writing, and most importantly the story of eyes and bodies. It is rare that a book is as equally horrifying as it is beautiful, rigorous as it is readable, quiet as it is spectacular, but that is just what Tsai has created in DEAR TWIN. I have never read anything quite like it.” \u2014Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy<\/em>, Long Division<\/em>, and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America<\/em><\/p>\n

“Deeply contemplative and poetic, Addie Tsai’s DEAR TWIN is soft and unabashedly queer. When Poppy Uzumaki’s twin sister disappears, Poppy begins writing her letters in the hopes of finding not only her sister, but also forgiveness and closure. At eighteen, Poppy longs to escape to a brighter future with her girlfriend Juniper but feels locked in place, wrestling with not only her own demons but also those of her grudging father and her wayward sister.
\nTsai deftly navigates the complicated feelings of sisterhood, twinhood, and sharing a face and part of your soul with someone, and how that changes when they disappear. DEAR TWIN is an unwavering look at finding love and happiness and overcoming the pervasive idea that you don’t deserve either.\u201d \u2014CB Lee, author of Not Your Sidekick<\/em><\/p>\n

“DEAR TWIN is an emotional, unique experience. Tsai\u2019s exploration of queer identity, family, and adolescent ennui\u2014paired with prose that\u2019s both deft and inventive\u2014will leave a lasting impression, especially on your heart. Through her dissection of the relationship between twins Poppy and Lola (who goes missing), Tsai weaves a heart-wrenching, raw, and sometimes obscure tale of the search for oneself in the chaos of a world that constantly tries to define us all.\u201d \u2014John Corey Whaley, author of Where Things Come Back<\/em>, Noggin<\/em>, and Highly Illogical Behavior<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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