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Siren Queen
by Nghi Vo
 Old Hollywood glamour is reimagined with magic and monsters in Siren Queen, the second novel by Hugo Award winner Nghi Vo. Luli Wei, a queer Chinese American woman, is determined to become a movie star without succumbing to stereotype. To achieve her dream, she will need to survive the monsters of Hollywood while maintaining her sense of purpose and self, even if it means exploring her own monstrous side. "Nghi Vo pulls off the magic trick of making her protagonist feel simultaneously like a supernaturally fated star and a crushingly human young woman," says editor Ruoxi Chen, who called the in-house reaction to the book "rapturous." "You leave Nghi's books wondering if the real world is the one you're returning to or the one you just left." With lush imagery and gorgeously rendered atmosphere, Siren Queen is magical realism at its most intoxicating. --Jennifer Oleinik, freelance writer and editor
(Tordotcom, $26.99 hardcover, 9781250788832, May 10, 2022)
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