Imagine More Deeply: A Conversation with Cai Emmons
Aimee Liu speaks with Cai Emmons about her two new novels, “Unleashed” and “Livid.”
Aimee Liu is the author of Glorious Boy and Gaining: The Truth about Life after Eating Disorders. Her first book, Solitaire (1979), was the United States’ first anorexia memoir. Her novels include Flash House (2003), a tale of suspense and Cold War intrigue set in Central Asia; Cloud Mountain (1997), based on the true story of Liu’s American grandmother and Chinese revolutionary grandfather during the first Chinese Republic, the Warlord Era, and the Japanese invasion of China; and Face (1994), in which a young photographer raised in New York’s Chinatown exposes three generations of family secrets, dating back to Imperial China.
Aimee Liu speaks with Cai Emmons about her two new novels, “Unleashed” and “Livid.”
Why were we so hooked?
Truth contains beauty, balance, empathy, mercy, love, and insight, but also horror, brutality, and desperate need.