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- ISBN 9781684429967
- Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jul 2024
- Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Set in China as
America gets involved in WWI, Foreign Seed follows newly minted Vice
Consul Samuel Sokobin’s first case as he investigates the disappearance of
Frank Meyer (of Meyer Lemon fame), explorer for the U.S. Department of Foreign
Seed and Plant Introduction, when he disappears from a steamship on the Yangtze
River. A rugged, Dutch immigrant, Meyer made a living seeking foreign specimens
as a man without a country, a feeling Sokobin denies as he ticks off one more
year living in temporary housing in China and shielding himself from the
possibility of close friendship. Moreover, Meyer is rumored to be Jewish,
igniting the prejudice Sokobin can’t shake as the son of Jewish immigrant
laborers in New Jersey. Sokobin needs to find Meyer, and quickly, if the body
is to be properly cared for. Sokobin travels upriver with his enigmatic
interpreter, Mr. Lin, while fighting flaming visions of his fighter pilot
little brother’s apparent demise in France. Always the hotshot, young Ethan has
been missing for months, and Sokobin refuses to betray him by mourning him. The
search for Meyer leads Sokobin from Nanking to uncharted villages to the
streets of Shanghai, where he is confronted with his past and a love that is no
longer within his reach.
Allison Alsup is an award-winning writer who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. She teaches fiction workshops through the Loyola Writing Institute. Allison’s work was selected for the 2014 O’Henry Prize Stories and has appeared in the New Orleans Review, the Madison Review, River Styx, Salamander, and the New Guard, as well as The Best of Philadelphia Stories, 10th Anniversary Edition. She lives in New Orleans. You can learn more about Allison and her work at asalsup.wordpress.com.
