Category: 2025 Books
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Uketsu (author), Jim Rion (translator), Strange Pictures, HarperVia, 2025. 240 pgs. In the Prologue, we are told: βAll right, everyone, now Iβm going to show you a picture.β…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βThe Reader as Detective: Uketsuβs ππ‘πππππ ππππ‘π’πππ β by Jennifer Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/uketsu-author-jim-rion-translator-strange-pictures-harpervia-2025.png?w=974)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Mandira Chakraborty, Firefly Games, Sambhavna Prakashan, 2025. 217 pgs. The world we inhabit today is a curious interplay between misinformation and an overwhelming excess of informationβone click or…
![[REVIEW] βMandira Chakrabortyβs πΉππππππ¦ πΊππππ : Stories of Light and Shadowβ by Sayan Aich](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/mandira-chakraborty-firefly-games.jpg?w=1000)
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πRETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Mending Bodies. Hon Lai Chu (author), Jacqueline Leung (translator), Mending Bodies, Two Lines Press, 2025. 240 pgs. For those who haven’t read the original Chinese…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βMagical Realism or Political Prophecy? Hon Lai ChuβsΒ πππππππ π΅πππππ Β Reexaminedβ by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/hon-lai-chu-author-jacqueline-leung-translator-mending-bodies-two-lines-press-2025.-240-pgs.jpg?w=938)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Han Kang (author), e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (translators), We do Not Part, Hogarth, 2025. 272 pgs. Kyungha struggles to sleep or eat, suffers from persistent…
![[REVIEW] βThe Persistance of Memory: Han Kangβs ππ π·π πππ‘ ππππ‘β by Jennifer Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/https-www.penguinrandomhouse.combooks718535we-do-not-part-by-han-kang-translated-by-e-yaewon-and-paige-aniyah-morris.png?w=1024)
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] βSix Questions about the SixβSteven Schwankertβs The Six: The Untold Story of the Titanic’s Chinese Survivorsβ by Ryan Ho Kilpatrick Steven Schwankert, The Six: The Untold Story of the Titanic’s…
![[INTERVIEW] βSix Questions about the SixβSteven Schwankertβs πβπ πππ₯: πβπ πππ‘πππ ππ‘πππ¦ ππ π‘βπ πππ‘ππππ’π πΆβππππ π ππ’ππ£ππ£πππ β by Ryan Ho Kilpatrick](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/steven-schwankert-the-six-the-untold-story-of-the-titanics-chinese-survivors-1.jpg?w=988)
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran (editors), The Colors of April: Fiction on the Vietnam Warβs Legacy 50 Years Later, Three Room Press, 2025. 306 pgs. The Colors of…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βAn Empathetic Communion with the Pastβπβπ πΆπππππ ππ π΄ππππ: πΉπππ‘πππ ππ π‘βπ ππππ‘πππ πππβπ πΏπππππ¦ 50 πππππ πΏππ‘ππβ by Aaron Gerhart](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/the-colors-of-april-fiction-on-the-vietnam-wars-legacy-50-years-later--1.jpg?w=1000)
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βSusan Barkerβs Old Soul: A Globetrotting Horror with an Asian Sense of Eternityβ by Kevin McGeary Susan Barker, Old Soul, Penguin, 2025. 352 pgs. In 2014, Susan Barker published…
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