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Weina Dai Randel

Weina Dai Randel

Weina Dai Randel is the award-winning author of four novels, Night Angels, The Last Rose of Shanghai, The Moon in the Palace and The Empress of Bright Moon, a historical duology about Wu Zetian, China's only female emperor. Weina is the winner of the RWA RITA Award, a National Jewish Book Awards finalist, and a two-time Goodreads Choice Award nominee. Her books have been translated into twelve languages. Born in China, Weina came to the United States at 24, when she switched to English and began to speak, write and dream in her second language. She holds an MA in English from Texas Woman's University in Texas. She has worked as the subject-matter expert for Southern New Hampshire University's MFA program and as an adjunct professor. Interviews with Weina have appeared on WFAA's Good Morning Texas and in such publications as World Literature Today, China Daily, The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, and Los Angeles Review of Books. After living in Texas for years, Weina now resides in Boston with her loving husband, two children, and a family of chipmunks in the backyard.

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Tall Poppy Review: “The Man She Married” Shocks

There are many ways to write about being in a coma, the shock, the helpless entrapment, and the frightening numbness and silence, but then there is Cathy Lamb's way, with bewilderment, with laugh-out-loud humor, and with chilling fear of why things have gone wrong. In The Man She Married,  (Kensington)…
Weina Dai Randel
November 1, 2018