Grace Shuyi Liew

they/she 🏳️‍🌈 Malaysian living in Brooklyn // Novel-in-progress // Fellow @Center4fiction & @Macdowell1907 // Repped by @imaginarysmd // Hitched @astavoid_

[Grace Shuyi Liew @g_liew]

When I first watched EEAAO I cried tears from a place I didn’t know existed, let alone see in a film — cut through the brilliant layers & it is at heart a mother loving her queer daughter so much she would tear through the very fabric of reality to save her from psychic suicide —

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[Garth Greenwell @GarthGreenwell]

Last Monday morning, the (arguably) two most important fiction critics in America each wrote about my new novel. One review was a dream, the other a pan. I wrote a little about what that was like. Link in profile.

[Grace Shuyi Liew @g_liew]

@jemmawei Truly a gift ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[Jemimah James Wei / 魏信子 @jemmawei]

Its my birthday! This time last year, I sold my debut novel -- my wildest dream. This year, I'm flying home from a beautiful media week in NY for THE OG DAUGHTER, and cannot believe how much life has changed🥹

🌙 OG is available for birthday preorders: https://t.co/2Ksq6qdA9j

[Jemimah James Wei / 魏信子 @jemmawei]

BRUH

Feeling so incredibly grateful and honoured -- THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER is an #indiesintroduce winter/spring 2025 pick!!!!!

She comes out MAY 6TH 2025 and is also now available to preorder from your local fav indie:
https://t.co/42T9ROdbWZ
❤️❤️❤️

[Jemimah James Wei / 魏信子 @jemmawei]

Guys ... We are a @BNBuzz bestseller in under 24 hours 🥹😳

So, so grateful to everyone for the love and preorders 😭 you can preorder THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER from Barnes&Noble here:
https://t.co/Qp0SUgiwcK

Thanks @vanjchan @g_liew for being ON IT
& @doubledaybooks... LFGGGG

[Jemimah James Wei / 魏信子 @jemmawei]

SHE HAS A COVER AND SHE HAS A PREORDER LINK AND SHE WAS GIVEN FIVE STARS BY ROXANE GAY ON GOODREADS THATS IT THATS THE NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://t.co/nAh04ctz5h

[Grace Shuyi Liew @g_liew]

@jemmawei Can’t wait!!!!!!!!

[Grace Shuyi Liew @g_liew]

@vanjchan I—

[Jemimah James Wei / 魏信子 @jemmawei]

THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER is in @rgay's newsletter THE AUDACITY today being infuriating and unputdownable!! 😭😭😭😭😭

[Grace Shuyi Liew @g_liew]

I need to know who did this

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

This is subtly beautiful.

[Grace Shuyi Liew @g_liew]

heart, but in this case it clearly came from a place of self-salvation and false contrition, and I think when we fool ourselves that art can replace genuine embodiment of values in our actual relationships is when we lose our humanity

[Grace Shuyi Liew @g_liew]

To realize that Alice Munro’s knack for writing the plight of characters failed by their nearest & dearest came from a place of having dealt that hand to her own daughter, and not a place of empathy — I think we all want to believe that art comes from a place of insight, from the

[Grace Shuyi Liew @g_liew]

@jemmawei 2nd one

[Grace Shuyi Liew @g_liew]

@alexander_61609 Welcome back!

[Jemimah James Wei / 魏信子 @jemmawei]

first pass pages are in... I'm stunned. I have an ISBN and everything. A typeface!!! 🥹😭

[Jemimah James Wei / 魏信子 @jemmawei]

Wrote about our relationship to time, tenses, and endings in the final installment of curbside. Let's say it's a see you later.

[Grace Shuyi Liew @g_liew]

@jemmawei ❤️❤️❤️ so much beauty here ❤️‍🩹

[Temim Fruchter @temim]

Favorite essays or craft talks that engage ideas/questions of speculative history in fiction? More specifically, speculative family history, and/or speculative queer history.

[Grace Shuyi Liew @g_liew]

The way this tweet backfired 😭

[Amtrak @Amtrak]

blink three times if you need to be rescued from your airline middle seat