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Aimee Liu

Biography

Aimee Liu

Aimee Liu is the bestselling author of the novels FLASH HOUSE, CLOUD MOUNTAIN and FACE, and the memoirs GAINING: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders and SOLITAIRE. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, published as a Literary Guild Super Release, and serialized in Good Housekeeping. She’s received a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, a Bosque Fiction Prize, and special mention by the Pushcart Prize. Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, Poets & Writers, and many other periodicals and anthologies. A past president of the national literary organization PEN Center USA, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College and is on the faculty of Goddard College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program at Port Townsend, WA. She lives in Los Angeles.

Aimee Liu

Books by Aimee Liu

Glorious Boy
by Aimee Liu - Fiction, Historical Fiction

It’s 1942. The Japanese have invaded Burma and are closing in on India. After five years in the remote Andaman Islands, aspiring anthropologist Claire Durant and her husband Shep, a civil surgeon, must evacuate with their beloved but mysteriously mute four-year-old, Ty. However, they cannot take Naila, the local girl whose ability to communicate with Ty has made them dangerously dependent on her. The morning of the evacuation, both children disappear. With time running out, Shep forces Claire onto the ship while he stays behind to find their son. But just days after landing in Calcutta, Claire learns that the Japanese have taken the Andamans --- and cut off all access to her missing family. In the desperate odyssey that follows, Claire, Shep and Naila will take unimaginable risks while drawing deeply from their knowledge of these unique islands to save their beloved “glorious boy.”