Bertolt Brecht wrote that, in the dark times, there will also be singing. In Susanna Kwan’s debut novel, she asks whether those songs may be sung if there are no choirs to sing them. Choirs require ...

A drowning metropolis, a project unfinished, and an unbreakable commitment to stay -- in "Awake in the Floating City," the ravishing new novel by Susanna Kwan, the story takes the reader into a San ...

Kwan debuts with a lyrical tale of a woman’s search for a better life in a near-future San Francisco deluged with never-ending rain. Bo, an artist turned caregiver, prepares to leave the city for ...

Historical novels, memoirs, science fiction and fantasy by acclaimed and emerging California and visiting writers are on the agenda this month, as well as a few book festivals featuring dozens of ...