A book reborn: Lydia Kwa breathing new life into The Walking Boy is inspirational GlobeArts
Often novelists express their desire to edit their earlier work even as they acknowledge that constant revision would mean no new books. Rarely does a novel find both reason and opportunity for a second life.1.0,” she had no idea it would be the second book in a trilogy or that she would rewrite it over a decade later. The story of’s second life is one of editorial inspiration, Canadian publishing industry woe and, finally, artistic renewal.
Its first life was with Key Porter Books, published in the fall of 2005, shortly after founder Anna Porter sold her controlling interest in the company to H.B. Fenn. Kwa remembers “a lot of transitional challenges due to this changeover, and I wondered how these would affect my book.” When H.B. Fenn declared bankruptcy in 2011, the rights to two books Kwa published with Key Porter reverted back to the author.
Although she was initially skeptical, by 2013, the idea had grown on her. “I convinced myself I’d try to write a prequel, see what happens.” That prequel, 2017’sWalking Boy , now the second book in the series, published in March, 2019. Kwa is currently working on the third book in her chuanqi trilogy. The termmight remind readers of magical realism, but they in fact hark back to this older Chinese literary tradition of chuanqi tales involving the supernatural, fox spirits, ghosts and demons.picks up 38 years after whereleft off.
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