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Rook Rook: Accent by Accident
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781069011923
Publisher: Lfz Publishing
Published: Sep 2 2024
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Synopsis
A half-Chinese, half-white comedian who despises everything Chinese-including half of himself-travels to China, only to get into a car accident and wakes up with foreign accent syndrome, speaking English with a thick Chinese accent. Stranded in the country he resents, he must adapt to his new reality and confront his fractured identity.
About the Author
A.J. LIU is an award-winning screenwriter, and novelist. His screenplay Visualize, written under the pen name Joseph Liu, won the Golden Remi at the 2017 WorldFest-Houston film festival. His debut novel, Rook Rook, originated as a screenplay, making it a novelization by technicality. He resides in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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