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Lisa Brackmann’s Rock Paper Tiger excerpt and Q&A

Lisa Brackmann has worked as a motion picture executive and an issues researcher in a presidential campaign. She has lived and traveled extensively in China. A southern California native, Brackmann in Venice, California, and spends a lot of time in Beijing, China. Rock Paper Tiger is her first novel.

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Deanna Fei’s A Thread of Sky

A Thread of Sky is narrated by each of the six characters in turn, from each stop on their tour; each chapter is written in the third-person, but entirely from the characters’ points of view. I always knew that was the only way I could write it, because through

the story of these six women and their experiences of China, the novel also explores the nature of perspective: each character’s perspective on herself, on one another, and on China.”

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