Celeste Ng, author of “Everything I Never Told You,” compiled a lengthy list of Asian-American female authors for a January 1 article in that examines why there is a “blind spot” with this demographic. “I’m hoping to do a bigger tour over the summer, when I have time,” Bao added.Īsian-American women fiction writers may be more common than some believe.
Meanwhile, on March 14, Bao is scheduled to travel to Arizona, for the Tuscon Festival of Books. In addition to “Dove Arising,” Bao said Penguin Random House has contracted her to write two more books in the series - one to tentatively publish next spring, the other in 2017. “For the first few months, before the book came out and when people were starting to respond to it, I thought that the good reviews would make my day and that the bad reviews would sort of ruin my mood for the entire night,” she said. When she was three or four, Bao would lie in bed restlessly, she said, squirming around until her father, a chemist who emigrated from China in the 1980s, began reading aloud her favorite book - “Aladdin.” “Mom was like, yeah, go for it - what do you have to lose"īao traces her passion for writing to her love of books, especially science fiction and fantasy, she said. “I wanted to get into the head of a really introverted person and show they are stronger than they look,” Bao said. Bao said she based Theta’s character on one of her best friends, who is also very introverted but has a lot of inner-strength. “Dove Arising,” which takes place on the moon 200 years from now, is about a 15-year-old introvert, Phaet Theta, who joins the Lunar Militia, an army and police force, to save her younger siblings after their mother is arrested. “I avoided thinking about this by writing this book about a girl with a pretty uncertain future,” she said. It was 2012, and Bao was uncertain about where she would attend college, let alone if she was even ready to go.
Senior year of high school is stressful for many students, and Bao, a Chinese American who grew up in New Jersey, was no exception. “It still doesn’t feel real yet,” Bao, now 20, told NBC News.
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