Their enthusiasm has been truly touching.
I wrote I Dream of Popo to tell my own story, but it’s been incredibly rewarding to hear from readers who saw their own experiences reflected in the book. I don’t think I truly understood the value of #ownvoices literature before I wrote this book.
What has been the most rewarding reaction from a reader so far? At that point, the girl realizes that she’ll always have a connection with her grandmother in her heart, despite barriers of distance and language. In the dream, she speaks Chinese to Popo, and her Popo replies in English. My favorite spread is the one at the end, where she dreams about her grandmother after Popo becomes ill. This makes it harder for her to communicate with her beloved Chinese-speaking Popo (maternal grandmother) in Taiwan. I Dream of Popocenters around a young girl’s immigration from Taiwan to San Diego, and a large part of the story hinges around her losing her proficiency in Chinese. Livia Blackburne: Love, Distance, Generations, Language, FoodĬan you share a highlight from the book? Or maybe your thoughts on, or an excerpt of, your favorite sentence, paragraph, or page? Which five words best describe I Dream of Popo? In her free time, Livia likes to karaoke, dance, and dabble in martial arts. in cognitive neuroscience, she moved to Los Angeles, where she now lives with her husband and daughter. After a twelve-year stint at Harvard and MIT, where she earned an AB in Biochemical Sciences and a Ph.D. Livia was born in Taipei, Taiwan and moved to Albuquerque, NM when she was five. She is the author of the Midnight Thief and Rosemarked duologies. Since then, she’s switched to full-time writing, which also involves getting into people’s heads but without the help of a three tesla MRI scanner.
New York Times–bestselling author Livia Blackburne wrote her first novel while researching the neuroscience of reading at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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