Susanna Kwan, author portrait
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Susanna Kwan

SUSANNA KWAN is an artist and writer from San Francisco. Awake in the Floating City is her first novel.

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Awake in the Floating City

Dear Librarians: A Letter from Susanna Kwan, Author of Awake in the Floating City

“When I was young, my mother brought me to the library at least once a week, our visits as routine as buying groceries or going to school. No matter what neighborhood we moved to, there was always a branch nearby, complete with a musty card catalog, squeaky revolving racks stuffed with paperbacks, and a librarian who would listen carefully to our questions and guide us to the right books.”

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