We are thrilled to be revealing the cover for Jadie Jang’s Monkey Around as well as a snippet at the upcoming release! Monkey Around is an action-packed urban fantasy delivering a bold new take on the Monkey King (but in San Francisco) complete with murder and mayhem!
Coming from Solaris in August 2021, Jadie Jang’s debut novel is perfect for fans of contemporary and paranormal genres, and features representation from Asian and South American cultures.
SYNOPSIS
San Francisco has a Monkey King – and she’s kinda freaked out.
Barista, activist, and were-monkey Maya McQueen was well on her way to figuring herself out. Well, part of the way. 25% of the way. If
you squint.
But now the Bay Area is being shaken up. Occupy Wall Street has come home to roost; and on the supernatural side there’s
disappearances, shapeshifter murders, and the city’s spirit trying to find its guardian.
Maya doesn’t have a lot of time before chaos turns up at her door, and she needs to solve all of her problems. Well, most of them. The
urgent ones, anyhow.
But who says the solutions have to be neat? Because Monkey is always out for mischief.
Cover art by Sam Gretton
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Open in new tab Claire Light (writing as Jadie Jang) started a magazine (Hyphen) and an arts festival (APAture) with a cast of Asian Pacific Americans even more magical, if less supernatural, than the ones she writes about. After wrangling arts and social justice non-profits for 17 years, Jadie Jang, the part Claire’s brain that writes snarky-fun genre romps, was born. Claire lives in San Francisco, CA and posts about monkeys every Monday under @seelight on Twitter.
