Book Announcement

HOMEBASE

A Novel

Shawn Wong

With a new introduction by the author

(University of Washington Press, May 2008, $12.95 paperback)

University of Washington Press is pleased to announce the publication of a new edition of Shawn Wong’s novel Homebase.  When it was first published in 1979, this coming of age story was lauded as “a poetically rendered tour de force” by Amerasia Journal.  In his new introduction, Shawn Wong describes the book’s initial publication, the blossoming of Asian American literature from 1970s forward, and his own development as a writer.  Included in the book are discussion questions, many suggested by professors who teach Homebase in their courses.

Shawn Wong is the author of the novel American Knees and an editor of several anthologies of Asian American literature, including Aiiieeeee! and The Big Aiiieeeee!. His work has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship and numerous other prizes. He is professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle.

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