Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan

Written By Lin Salisbury

Listen to my conversation with Susanna Kwan about her debut novel, AWAKE IN THE FLOATING CITY. When years of rain have drowned a future San Francisco, almost everyone has left. Bo knows she should go but she hasn’t been able to make herself leave after her mother went missing. When she finally decides to leave, an elderly neighbor slips a note under her door asking her to be her caretaker. Bo stays. And what she finds is a return to art, what it means to memorialize a person and a place, and a newfound purpose. We talk about all these things in the May episode of Superior Reads.

Lin Salisbury

Lin Salisbury is the producer and host of Superior Reads on WTIP Radio 90.7 Grand Marais, and on the web, and has hosted New York Times bestelling authors, National Book Award winners, Minnesota Book Award winners, and Pulitzer Prize winning authors on her monthly show featuring author interviews and book reviews. She is currently at work on a memoir, Crazy for You, and a novel, The Violet Hour Book Club. She is the recipient of two Minnesota State Arts Board grants, and has been awarded the Lake Superior Writers Creative Nonfiction Award and a Loft Mentor Series fellowship in Creative Nonfiction.

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