Here’s another giveaway offer from new publishing venture Upswell Press.
You will remember my post about the Mildura LitFest, in which I shared the news that readers can subscribe to this year’s list of three books which include The Sweetest Fruits by Vietnamese-American author Monique Truong. The Sweetest Fruits is scheduled for publication by Upswell on September 20th.
About the book:
With brilliant sensitivity and an unstinting eye, The Sweetest Fruits illuminates three women’s tenacity and their struggles in a novel that circumnavigates the globe in the search for love, family, home and belonging.
In The Sweetest Fruits, three women, Rosa, Alethea, and Setsu, tell the story of their life with Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904), a globetrotting Greek-Irish writer best known as the author of America’s first Creole cookbook and for his many volumes about the folklore and ghost stories of Meiji Era Japan. In their own unorthodox ways, the three women are also intrepid travellers and explorers. Their accounts witness Hearn’s remarkable life but also seek to witness their own existence and luminous will to live unbounded by gender, race, and the mores of their time. Each is a gifted storyteller with her own precise reason for sharing her story, and together their voices offer a revealing, often contradictory portrait of Hearn.
About the author:
Monique Truong is the Vietnamese American author of the bestselling, award-winning novels The Book of Salt, Bitter in the Mouth and The Sweetest Fruits. She’s also a former refugee, essayist, avid eater, lyricist/ librettist, and intellectual property attorney (more or less in that order).
Praise for The Sweetest Fruits:
See the review at The New York Times and other reviewers at Truong’s website.
HOW TO ENTER
Interested? Please add your name to the comments below, and I’ll draw the winners at the end of next week. All entries from readers with an Australian postcode for delivery will be eligible but it is a condition of entry that if you are the winner, you must contact me with a postal address by the deadline that will be specified in the blog post that announces the winner. (I’ll redraw if this deadline isn’t met). Your postal address will be forwarded to the publisher who will then send you the book.
Good luck everybody!
ANZ LitLovers LitBlog 
Sounds like a wonderful book. Nicole Hilder
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By: Nicole on September 20, 2021
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Good luck Nicole!
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By: Lisa Hill on September 20, 2021
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Bryn Hammond with a NSW postcode (didn’t quite understand whether to put this in)
Thanks for the opportunity!
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By: Bryn Hammond on September 20, 2021
at 9:23 am
Good luck, Bryn:)
Re the postcode, it’s just to alert people to the eligibility, because postage costs outside Australia can cost more than the book. If you win, that’s when you privately provide your address.
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By: Lisa Hill on September 20, 2021
at 10:03 am
This sounds lovely. You can toss my name into the hat please. Thank you.
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By: Travellin Penguin (Pam) on September 20, 2021
at 9:27 am
Will do!
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By: Lisa Hill on September 20, 2021
at 10:03 am
This looks great and the cover is beautiful!
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By: Janelle on September 20, 2021
at 9:35 am
Good luck Janelle!
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By: Lisa Hill on September 20, 2021
at 10:03 am
This totally sounds like my kind of read! Count me in
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By: Marg on September 20, 2021
at 9:48 am
Yes, will do!
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By: Lisa Hill on September 20, 2021
at 10:00 am
Years ago I read a fascinating book (In Ghostly Japan) by Lafcadio Hearn My interest is definitely piqued by your summary of Monique Truong’s book.
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By: Mark Grieveson on September 20, 2021
at 10:16 am
Good luck Mark!
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By: Lisa Hill on September 20, 2021
at 10:43 am
Sounds good, would love to be in the running.
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By: Theresa Smith Writes on September 20, 2021
at 11:49 am
Good luck Theresa:)
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By: Lisa Hill on September 20, 2021
at 11:55 am
Oh! Yes please :-)
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By: Jennifer on September 20, 2021
at 12:31 pm
Good luck, Jennifer:)
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By: Lisa Hill on September 20, 2021
at 2:19 pm
Please include me – sounds great!
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By: Sue on September 20, 2021
at 2:55 pm
Yes, will do:)
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By: Lisa Hill on September 20, 2021
at 5:55 pm
Me too, thanks.
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By: karenlee thompson on September 20, 2021
at 5:05 pm
Good luck Sue!
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By: Lisa Hill on September 20, 2021
at 5:55 pm
This sounds like a really interesting review!
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By: hereiknit on September 20, 2021
at 7:02 pm
Good luck!
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By: Lisa Hill on September 20, 2021
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Liz Dorrington.
This sounds like some a beautiful book!
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By: Liz Dorrington on September 21, 2021
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I’ll enter you in the drawn Liz:)
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By: Lisa Hill on September 21, 2021
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Liz Dorrington
This book sounds like it will be sweet but also bitter sweet.
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By: Liz Dorrington on September 21, 2021
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[…] If you missed out this time, there’s still a current giveaway for Book Giveaway: The Sweetest Fruits, by Monique Truong, also from Upswell Publishing. […]
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By: Book Giveaway winner: The Dogs, by John Hughes | ANZ LitLovers LitBlog on September 24, 2021
at 9:42 pm
Willow Croft sending out a broadcast… :-)
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By: Willow Croft on September 25, 2021
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