Aube Rey Lescure
Aube Rey Lescure is a French-Chinese-American writer. Her debut novel River East, River West was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in the US and Duckworth in the UK in 2024. It has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Maya Angelou Book Award, and the Stanfords’ Fiction with a Sense of Place Award, as well as longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, LitHub, Electric Literature, The Millions, Litro, and more. Her essay ‘At the Bend of the Road’ was selected for Best American Essays 2022.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 169
The Secret Pattern
Aube Rey Lescure
‘My father said there is fate and destiny governing each of our paths, of individuals and of nations, and this only the dead may know.’
Aube Rey Lescure on returning to China.
