Charmaine Craig is a faculty member in the Department of Creative Writing at UC Riverside, and the descendant of significant figures in Burma's modern history. A former actor in film and television, she studied literature at Harvard University and received her MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Her first novel, The Good Men, was a national bestseller translated into six languages.
Like many of the best books, Miss Burma feels rooted in its time
and place, while also laying bare timeless questions of loyalty,
infidelity, patriotism, and identity - not to mention the globally
perpetuated unfair treatment of women.
*Elle*
Miss Burma serves as a much needed recalibration of history, one
that redresses the narrative imbalance by placing other ethnic,
non-Burmese points of view at the center of its story... By
resurrecting voices that are seldom heard on a wider stage, Craig's
novel... brings one of Burma's many lost histories to vivid
life.
*New York Times Book Review*
Charmaine Craig wields powerful and vivid prose to illuminate a
country and a family trapped not only by war and revolution, but
also by desire and loss. Both epic and intimate, Miss Burma is a
compelling and disturbing trip through Burmese history and
politics.
*Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of THE
SYMPATHIZER*
A riveting portrayal of human resourcefulness and heroism, and of
their inadequacy before the great cataclysms of history. This
engrossing novel movingly affirms - in its characters, but also in
the elegance and fineness of its craft - the perseverance of
dignity in the face of our helplessness.
*Garth Greenwell, author of WHAT BELONGS TO YOU*
Miss Burma is a book which resonates with meaning, of how we are
all actors in our histories and the histories of our nations, it
disrupts our settled sense that the past is the past, and shows how
it reaches forward to touch the future. It is a powerful, moving
and important novel.
*Aminatta Forna, author of THE HIRED MAN*
Rich and layered, a complex weaving of national and personal trauma
. . . Craig has written a captivating second novel that skillfully
moves from moments of quiet intimacy and introspection to passages
portraying the swift evolution of political events as multiple
groups and nations vie for control of Burma's future. Mesmerizing
and haunting.
*Kirkus Reviews (starred)*
Spanning generations and multiple dictators, Craig's epic novel
provides a rich, complex account of Burma and its place within the
larger geopolitical theater . . . The language and the images
unfold with grace, horror, and intimacy.
*Publishers Weekly*
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