Read it in the Green Room

Pride and Preston Lin

Christina Hwang Dudley

Third State Books

  • settingSan Francisco Bay Area

A contemporary Austen riff set in the San Francisco Bay Area, featuring Asian American protagonists from different economic backgrounds; a fit for readers seeking romance grounded in cultural and family dynamics.

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The Green Room

Backstage of Pride and Preston Lin.

Walk in mid-chapter. The people of the book are there, as themselves, knowing what they know so far — and nothing else. Ask them anything. They have read exactly as far as you have.

A moment in the Green Room

Pride and Preston Lin · Christina Hwang Dudley

The narrator

Of Pride and Preston Lin, as they are at your reading place

You

What happens next?

The narrator

“I can only tell you what you have read. Past your page there is nothing yet — not for you, and not for me. Turn it, and come back.”

Their knowledge stops where your reading does.

Illustrative conversation. The app answers from the passages you have read.

Who is in the room

Anyone who has walked on by your page.

The cast

Any character who has appeared so far. Someone who hasn’t walked on yet isn’t in the room. That’s not a limitation; that’s the point.

The narrator

The voice telling you the story, as far as it has told it.

The author

As the book presents them — the mind behind the pages you have read, not a biography.

The book itself

Ask what it is doing to you so far. It answers from its own pages, up to yours.

Before you go in

What critics and prize juries said.

Editorial synthesis

Publishers Weekly praises the novel’s crisp cultural specificity, the chemistry between its protagonists, and the warmth of the sisters’ relationship, while noting that its close adherence to Pride and Prejudice can strain credulity and that the climax’s emotional stakes are reduced.

Drawn from www.publishersweekly.com.

How it stays unspoiled

Nothing past your page exists.

The companion is assembled from the passages you have read and only those. A character who knows the ending is no one worth talking to, so there is no override — not behind a setting, not behind a confirmation. Your position is the wall.

You are here

Get the book

One ebook. Yours.

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