Short Fiction Contest, the Canadian Authors’ Association (Toronto) National Writing Contest, the ILS/Fence Fiction Contest, the Masters Review’s Novel Excerpt Contest, the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival Fiction Contest, among others.
Chang applied the Page 69 Test to her debut novel, The Immortal Woman, and reported the following:
Page 69 of my book is distinctively different from most other pages in that it recounts, in a satirical and brisk manner, a series of factual occurrences at the end of the Cultural Revolution (the downfall of the Gang of Four and Mao’s handpicked heir, and the rise of President Deng Xiaoping). This page might have been the most non-fictional of the entire novel! As such, I’m afraid the Page 69 Test doesn’t quite apply to my book. The page serves as a bridge between two narrative scenes. I’m much more interested in the human story than recounting history. Browsing this page alone wouldn’t tell the reader much about the book, other than the fact that part of it is set in the 1970s China. However, I think history buffs would find it intriguing. And even for those who didn’t pick up the book for its history, I hope I’ve found an entertaining and humorous way to compress a period of complex history into one single page and to set the stage for the ensuing human drama.Learn more about the book and author at Su Chang's website.
My Book, The Movie: The Immortal Woman.
--Marshal Zeringue
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