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My contributor’s copy has arrived. Thank you @tahomareview #amwriting #ampublished #shortstories

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Winter comes to Amsterdam

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Heading into the wilds of @water_landia . I hope the locals will be friendly.
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Praise for The Dancing Girl and the Turtle

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal: “deeply disturbing”, “grippingly realistic” “engrossing outset for the next volume of the Shanghai Quartet”

Hong Kong Review of Books: “the brutally authentic struggles [and] the powerful message make this story vital”

South China Morning Post: “makes Fifty Shades of Grey look like light bondage”

Los Angeles Review of Books: “a remarkable character-driven debut”

Expatica: “The writing is exceptional”

Holland Times: “Kao’s prose is vivid and immediate”

Historical Novel Society: “a story I will go on thinking about for a good while”

Contemporary Small Press: “The human need for intimacy and understanding is apparent on every page”

Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang: “Karen Kao is a master of the Noir”

bookish.asia: “an ambitious, striking addition”

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American Book Center, Amsterdam

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