Amnesia of June Bugs

<p><strong style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>Jackson Bliss's brilliant and moving debut novel</strong><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1)> redefines what a novel can be. Hurricane Sandy has just smashed into the Eastern Seaboard trapping four passengers on the C train: a Chinese American graffiti artist grieving his father's death a mixed-race graphic designer struggling to become a mom a Moroccan French translator escaping his heartache in Paris and an Indian American traveler leaving Chicago to regain control of her life. </span><em style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>Amnesia of June Bugs </em><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>is an ambitious infatuated and furious book about the time we lost and the people we could have loved.</span></p><p><br></p><p>Jackson Bliss paints with words. He is the Kendrick Lamar of the literary world.</p><p><strong>-REGINA KING Emmy-award-winning actress & director</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em>Amnesia of June Bugs</em> is a lush kaleidoscopic love song to the city. Jackson Bliss's voice is original and intricately wrought. It is cerebral and tender. There is so much passion and love in these pages. I love how central a role identity and mixed race experience play here and how this thrilling story keeps you gripped all the while like a train underground in a storm headed for what you can't know but can't stop reading to find out.  </p><p><strong>-TOMMY ORANGE Pulitzer Prize winning author of <em>There There</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>In <em>Amnesia of June Bugs</em> Jackson Bliss has written a bold innovative masterpiece. I luxuriated over every sentence of this smart zeitgeisty novel. At once tender and acute Bliss deftly captures the multifaceted lives of his diverse cast of characters. The amalgamation of honest characters stylistic feats and shrewd social commentary makes this singular novel a must-read.</p><p><strong> -AMY MEYERSON author of <em>The Bookshop of Yesterdays</em> and <em>The Imperfects</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>In <em>Amnesia of June Bugs </em>Jackson Bliss delivers a hip intimate and heartfelt exploration of our multicultural cosmopolitan world one full of promise and yet under threat. He is one of the great advocates and defenders of such a world so urgently embodied in this very necessary novel.</p><p><strong>-VIET THANH NGUYEN Pulitzer Prize winning author of <em>The Sympathizer</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>A virtuosic feat of storytelling with fire on every page. It feels prophetic like a meditation on aspects of identity and pop culture that haven't even been invented yet.</p><p><strong>-JAMIE FORD NYT bestselling author of books not as well written as this one</strong></p><p><br></p><p>In <em>Amnesia of June Bugs</em> Ginger Lin Winnie Yu Aziz Al-Wahnan and Suzanne Gupta are trapped on the C-train in the NYC underground. Hurricane Sandy swirls above. In this brief rupture in time their rebellious metamorphoses intersect stories emerging from hybrid bodies woven cultures translingual narratives at play with graffiti screenplay questionnaire lyric lists. Jackson Bliss diasporic hapa-Whitman has written protest poem manifesto and anthem-a 21st century love song to America.</p><p><strong>-KAREN TEI YAMASHITA author of <em>Sansei & Sensibility: Stories</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>Jackson Bliss is as verbally exuberant as any writer I've come across in years. <em>Amnesia of June Bugs </em>is beautifully conceived powerful affecting hip comedic and as close to being of-the-moment as it is possible for a novel to be.</p><p>-<strong>T.C. BOYLE award-winning author of <em>The Terranauts</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p></p>