The Black Isle
- 614 pages
- 22 hours of reading
'The Black Isle is an elegant, disturbing and satisfying read, both epic and intimate.'- The Los Angeles Times
Sandi Tan Books
Sandi Tan is a filmmaker and novelist whose work offers ambitious, supernatural coming-of-age stories. Her writing often blends paranormal elements with a gothic sensibility, featuring complex and fierce heroines. Tan's novels are noted for their darker themes and social commentary, providing an engaging and engrossing read. Her style is described as both epic and intimate, creating a mesmerizing and satisfying literary experience.
Lurkers
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
From author and filmmaker Sandi Tan, director of the acclaimed documentary Shirkers, comes a novel about a neighborhood of immigrants, seekers, lovers, and lurkers. The residents of Santa Claus Lane do their best to stay out of each other’s way, but desire, fury and mischief too often propel these suburban neighbors to collide. Precocious Korean American sisters Mira and Rosemary find their world rocked by a suicide, and they must fight to keep their home; a charismatic and creepy drama teacher grooms his students; a sardonic gay horror novelist finds that aging is more terrifying than any monster; and a white hippie mom and her adopted Vietnamese daughter realize that their anger binds them rather than pushes them apart. Lurkers is an homage to the rangy beauty of Los Angeles and the surprising power that we have to change the lives of those around us.
