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Naomi Kanakia, author of We Are Totally Normal

April 11th, 2021Still Life Las Vegas

KathReadsYA

April 11th, 2021Still Life Las Vegas

YA Books Central

“A powerful YA contemporary romance read, All Kinds of Other combines compelling characters with thought-provoking themes into a coming-of-age book that will stick with the reader for some time.”

April 4th, 2021Still Life Las Vegas

Augusten Burroughs

STILL LIFE LAS VEGAS is one of the most startlingly assured debut novels I’ve ever read. James Sie’s writing is gorgeous and the story is heartbreaking, a masterful journey through memory and into unseen Las Vegas. Sie goes behind the swarms of tourists and kitsch and gets under the skins of the electric desert city’s […]

July 14th, 2015Still Life Las Vegas

Booklist

The stories are haunting, a quality that is beautifully captured by artist Choi’s interpolated graphic novel chapters that expand and complement the text. Sie’s first novel is richly imagined and beautifully written with a well-realized setting and memorable characters. Together they make for an altogether auspicious debut.

July 14th, 2015Still Life Las Vegas

Publishers Weekly

Sie’s debut novel is an often mesmerizing look at grief and coming of age…Engrossing.

July 14th, 2015Still Life Las Vegas

The Venetian— so romantic, so manufactured, and so magical.

The Venetian— so romantic, so manufactured, and so magical.

July 2nd, 2015Still Life Las Vegas

This is the kind of photo I imagine young Emily found in that box of Vees…

This is the kind of photo I imagine young Emily found in that box of Vees…

July 2nd, 2015Still Life Las Vegas

Sungyoon and me at the Venetian

Sungyoon and me at the Venetian

July 2nd, 2015Still Life Las Vegas