Reposted by Alexandra Chan AuthorA.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Z, thank you again, so much! I hope you enjoy the drawing as much as I enjoyed drawing it! And I know you’re on break right now but I hope it’s fun to see this fun little BTS ☺️ much love and talk soon! 🩶🩶🩶 youtu.be/GXrL-XeVIo4?...youtu.beDraw With Me! Moon, Have Mercy: Chapter 1YouTube video by ASMiyasaki 131
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025My IPPY Gold Medal arrived & it’s a CHONKY boi! 😅 So glad I pushed through the fear that “there’s no market for memoir.” In the Garden Behind the Moon is for the thinkers AND the seekers, &those who wake up, mid-apocalŷpse, as I did, surprised to find...they might just be both? 👀 🌀 a.co/d/271zPgx 010
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Fantastic opportunity to read In the Garden Behind the Moon IMMERSIVELY! 75% off now thru 9/5. why immersively read this one?☝🏽 Well, the narration is terrific but the visuals are also key. www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p... 000
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Want to read In the Garden Behind the Moon IMMERSIVELY? 😍 Fantastic price on the audiobook now thru Sept 5! Pass it on! FULL of original art & photos so immersive is best. www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...audiobooks.com75% OFF In the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and MagicAlexandra Chan thinks she has life figured out until, in the Year of the Ram, the death of her father—her last parent—brings her to her knees, an event seemingly foretold in Chines... 010
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 19/07/2025The summer send of ✨ The Glimmering ✨ is going out tomorrow. Glimmers are the opposite of triggers and can light the way home. Join the conversation below! Or follow me on Substack (all back issues of The Glimmering are also on Substack. Hope to see you there friends! www.alexandrachan.com/start 010
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Summer Send of The Glimmering is coming this weekend. A little less news, a little more letter 🥰. Sign up here: www.alexandrachan.com/start 010
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025My PBS “talking head” debut is airing on select PBS stations across the country this month, but is available streaming from the link below thru 8/1! 😍🤓 It’s beautifully done. My book Slavery in the Age of Reason at 🔗 in bio. Happy watching/reading! Save our public media! www.pbs.org/show/concord... 010
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Looking for memoir lovers, magic seekers, and perennial askers of why. Or when appropriate, why not? In the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Magic has been loved by critics and readers alike. So what about it? The world is hard. So is life. Are you ready to believe in magic again? 020
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025In the Garden Behind the Moon is now a multi-award-winning book! 🙂 American Book Fest’s Best Book of the Year (2024) in Multicultural Nonfiction (also a finalist in 3 other categories—parenting & family, self help, & spirituality); & an IPPY Gold Medalist (2025) in Aging/Death & Dying. I’m so happy. 000
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Books that made me want to give up writing b/c why even bother. 😅 No, I’ve never actually considered giving up writing. I was exaggerating for attention. 🙃 These are just books that make it feel more urgent than ever to think, speak, &write more beautifully in the world. Have y read any of these? 😍 000
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Yahoo! I love great books finding their way to great people! ☺️🩶 010
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025It feels a little funny to say “I won!!” about death and dying 😅. But well, death is a part of life, &the one thing we can all be sure we have in common, isn’t it? The real win is knowing people everywhere are speaking the names of beloved old ones, while starting to heal themselves along the way. 😌 010
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025In the Garden Behind the Moon is #3 on Bookshop.org’s list just two below the heralded Strangers in the Land! 😍 🫠 Use AAPI25 for 20% off.bookshop.org/lists/nonfic...ZQbookshop.orgNonfiction Books to Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month 2025Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with Bookshop.org’s curated recommendations of AAPI authors. 000
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025The world is hard. So is life. Are you ready to believe in magic again? #booksky 010
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Loved this modern, urban, Latino fantasy retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, coming out June 7, by @carablaine.author! Snappy dialogue; gritty, urban crime-thriller vibes; with a wolf-shifter romance and various kinds of magic, overt and latent, made this a page turner for me. 000
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Who here is into immersive reading? Never done it myself but people describing it are making me kind of jelly and like I ought to try it. Well, now is your chance to immersively read In the Garden Behind the Moon because now through June 3, the audiobook is hãlf ôff. Link in bio and enjoy! #booksky 000
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 15/05/202550% off! Experience Rachel Yong’s heartfelt & hilarious narration. Her rendering of me as a 10yr old had me screaming. 🙃 This is a picture/art heavy story, so get the PDF download for the visuals. Or better: an *immersive* reading of the full color paperback. www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...audiobooks.comIn the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and MagicAlexandra Chan thinks she has life figured out until, in the Year of the Ram, the death of her father—her last parent—brings her to her knees, an event seemingly foretold in Chines... 011
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Went to see my new tea roses after the rain and I’m not sorry about it. 😍🤩 #gardening 020
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025I loved this book so much, one of my very favorites of last year. Just, fyi, it is also AANHPI Heritage Month and you couldn’t support a better author from this community. Stellar storyteller. Or, should I sayyyyy, INTER-stellar???? 👀 🙃🫠 #aapiheritagemonth #starwars 011
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Stories are the bridge. 🤷🏻♀️ Stay curious, friends, and you’ll always be all right. That’s what my dad used to say. I think In the Garden Behind the Moon will leave you enlightened, delighted, and…changed? 👀 #aapiheritagemonth #aanhpi 000
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025I realized I list myself as an artist in my profile but I’ve never once posted about my art! I do Chinese brush painting but I only came to it after my folks died. Reconnecting with this ancestral cultural activity was a huge part of my healing & many of them now illustrate my book in full color! 🥰 010
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025I am obsessed with the movie Sinners, not just for its supreme ART, but b/c I had no idea I would see my own deep southern Chinese & sharecropping ancestors on a screen together! 🤯 I wrote an award-winning book about some of that. Although there are no vampires in this story, there ARE ghosts! Enjoy 010
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Just got this beauty in the mail from @carablaine.author. Token of a Wolf is giving urban fantasy wolf-shifter romance, crime-stopping vibes and though I’ve only just cracked it open, it’s got a great opening and snappy writing that has sucked me right in. Really looking forward to this! 😍 000
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025New Substack is up. Hang in there, friends. The Goat, The Dragon, & Gardener's Time substack.com/@alexkachan/...substack.comThe Goat, The Dragon, & Gardener's TimeTelling better stories and linear vs. cyclical time when the going gets rough. 000
Reposted by Alexandra Chan AuthorDeeBooked @deefurey.bsky.social · 24/04/2025My current read, In the Garden Behind the Moon. A memoir of loss, myth, and magic. @alexkachan.bsky.social wrote this memoir after the loss of her father - her mom died 5 years earlier and she felt untethered. It’s beautifully written and I’ve shed tears reading it. #booksky #memoir #magicandmemory 3223
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025I’ll be talking from my exeperience as director of excavations at the last standing slave quarters in the North in this beautifully shot documentary. Airing July 3 on PBS. Trailer ⬇️ #Authorsky vimeo.com/1024463854/b...vimeo.comConcord's Secret History TrailerThis is "Concord's Secret History Trailer" by Tilman Remme on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. 000
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Had to go basic/functional with the signage 😅. Back says “Courage is contagious.” See you in the streets! #HandsOff 030
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025When I tell you I spit my coffee reading through this…. ☕️ 👀 🤪 I’m so gratified. 🙏🏽 Does this sound like someone you know? Pass it along to them! This is a word of mouth book if ever there was one. 🥰 elevatesociety.com/in-the-garde...elevatesociety.comIn the Garden Behind the Moon: Summary ReviewWhat if grief could be more than sorrow, transforming instead into a bridge toward unseen worlds and forgotten wisdom? In In the Garden Behind the Moon, Alexandra A. Chan invites readers into an extra... 000
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Tomorrow is April 19, the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution. Reasons we went to war against England? Here are some below #ResistFascism #NoKings. 010
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Coming to PBS in July! A documentary on Hidden Boston (pics from our 2 days of filming, at the Mass State Archives—where I am composing myself in the can 😅— and at the Royall House & Slave Quarters, which is the archaeological site I based my book, Slavery in the Age of Reason, on). #authorsky 000
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 06/04/2025NYC peeps, I’ll be at Jake’s Dilemma on Tuesday night, 7:30, for a great night of nonfiction with five other incredible memoirists. Hosted by the fine folks at @mustlovememoir Visit their page for the full April lineup. Hope to see you there! #Booksky 030
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Exeter LitFest & National Book Award winner, Dr. Tiya Miles, who says she teaches my first book, Slavery in the Age of Reason: Archaeology at a New England Farm, every year! 🤩 I picked up her own most recent Night Flyer, about Harriet Tubman & her special relationship to nature and the environment. 110
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Bad news but I am undeterred. My ancestors are my crucible and my guides. Protect our libraries and museums. Teach real history. #ITooAmAmerica #history #smithsonian 010
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025NH and ME peeps! I’ll be at the Exeter LitFest on Saturday April 5, 11-5pm. My panel on family and finding home is at 2:45, followed by National Book Award winner, Dr. Tiya Miles at 4! Come out if you’re not at one of the National protests! If you are, thank you for fighting! #authorsky 020
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025I think this tree is telling me to protect my energy 🧘🏽♀️ 🤨. Love finding new tree friends! 💚 🌎 #authorsky 030
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Ten years ago today, 2015, the “cursed” Year of the Ram 🐏, as I depicted it in In the Garden Behind the Moon. I didn’t know I was writing a book yet, but here I am writing in the reading nook. A moment in history preserved! Love seeing its birth unwittingly captured on film…. 💓 020
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025New Substack on the Gift of Liminal Time, which we can experience as an individual or as a society, but which many of us are experiencing simultaneously. It is powerfully uncomfortable. But keep the faith, friends, and look for the gifts. open.substack.com/pub/alexkach...open.substack.comThe Gift of Liminal TimeWhen the wound becomes the womb. 000
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025When life or the world is bringing us to our knees, we need to find new ways of knowing. I wrote a book about that…. #authorsky 040
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025See y’all on Saturday. Midnight tonight to midnight tomorrow night. National economic blackout. I hope we can cause a ripple. And learn what’s possible, when we work together, and give us something to build on for next time. #economicblackout 020
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Gradually expanding my newsletter, The Glimmering, based on the idea that glimmers are the opposite of triggers, to Substack. Join me there! 🥰 This one on self-regulation in these highly “triggering” times. open.substack.com/pub/alexkach... #authorskyopen.substack.comWind Bathing & Other ConsolationsLiving an embodied life and healing the Father Wound in times of fear, grief, or exhaustion 010
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Make it a practice, like morning coffee! ☕️ ✅ 😎 021
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025When the Dictionary has entered the chat. 💥 000
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025A fortifying quote from one of my favorite banned books, The Catcher in the Rye, with a fun drawing I found to go with it. #booksky 1132
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Dad was famous for his legs and wore short shorts into his old age. I hope you’ll find In the Garden Behind the Moon to not only be a captivating family portrait, though, but an urgent call to awaken to the magic and wonder of daily life. Available in all the places! #booksky 151
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Three books I just happen to be reading right now and enjoying tremendously, but because it is February and Black History Month, I thought I would share them here. Read diversely all year long! #booksky 041