Lin King

Tan’s attempt to write her first novel, A Clueless Man Shakes His Thump-Thumping Head, is not going well. She tries to write a memoir instead, but this involves checking her own memories against her...

May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no...