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Awabi by Mandy-Suzanne Wong, 2nd Edition

Name: Awabi by Mandy-Suzanne Wong, 2nd Edition
Brand: Digging Press
SKU: DIGGINGPRESSCHAPBOOK1.2
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Second Edition features a new preface and illustrations.

Winner of the 2018 Digging Press Chapbook Series Award. Mandy-Suzanne Wong deftly explores the complex world of the ama—ocean women, mostly elderly, who eke out a living while diving deep to capture abalone, snails, and otherworldly sea creatures for food. Suffused with lyrical imagery and profound longing, Wong creates evocative moments of love, pride, jealousy, misunderstanding, and sacrifice in this duet of short stories.

Cover and layout design by Cynthia Alvarez. Paperback.

ISBN: 978-1-7336038-3-6
68 pages
Chapbook Size: 4.25" x 6.75"

1st Edition Publication Date: April 2019
2nd Edition Publication Date: May 2022

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Praise for Awabi

"A short, deep dive into the hearts and minds of the extraordinary ama women, devoted predator-protectors whose ocean livelihood the same thing as being a good sister, mother, or daughter. Crafted with unsentimental, elegant prose, Wong has written a moving tribute to a dying of a way of life."

-- Karen Quevillon, author of The Parasol Flower

About the Author

Mandy-Suzanne Wong is a Bermudian writer of fiction and essays. Her next novel, The Box, is forthcoming in 2023 from Graywolf Press. Her acclaimed debut novel, Drafts of a Suicide Note, was a Foreword INDIES finalist and PEN Open Book Award nominee. Listen, we all bleed. Her first essay collection was an ASLE Book Award finalist, an EcoLit Best Environmental Book of 2021, and a PEN/Galbraith nominee. Her fiction chapbook Awabi, winner of the Digging Press Chapbook Series Award, is now in its second edition. She’s also the author of Artificial Wilderness, ttion Environmental Chapbook Competition winner, and the exhibition catalogue Animals Across Discipline, Time, and Space. Her work has appeared in Arcturus, Black Warrior Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Entropy, Hypocrite Reader, Litro, Necessary Fiction, Permafrost, Quail Bell, and Storm Cellar, winning recognition in the Best of the Net, Aeon Award, and Eyelands Flash Fiction competitions.