She Who Became the Sun Contemporary She can never be his

She can never be his

Light is chafing under L's extreme surveillance

Call Me by Your Name is clear-eyed

If I was going to escape

On her way to Utah to see her dying mother

She Who Became the Sun Contemporary She can never be hisMulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy. To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anythingI refuse to be nothingIn a famine stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingnessIn 1345, China