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Alexandra Chan Author

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Archaeologist (Ph.D.), artist, & award-winning author of In the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Magic. American Book Fest’s Best Book of the Year in Multicultural Nonfiction (2024).

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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Excellent word play! 🏆
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A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Z, 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?...
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Draw With Me! Moon, Have Mercy: Chapter 1
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
My 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
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Fantastic 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...
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Want 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...
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75% OFF In the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Magic
Alexandra 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...
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
The 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
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Summer Send of The Glimmering is coming this weekend. A little less news, a little more letter 🥰. Sign up here: www.alexandrachan.com/start
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
My 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...
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Looking 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?
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
In 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.
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Books 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? 😍
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Yahoo! I love great books finding their way to great people! ☺️🩶
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
It 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. 😌
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
In 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...ZQ
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Nonfiction Books to Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month 2025
Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with Bookshop.org’s curated recommendations of AAPI authors.
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The world is hard. So is life. Are you ready to believe in magic again? #booksky
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Loved 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.
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Who 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
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
50% 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...
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In the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Magic
Alexandra 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...
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 we are living in hell.
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Went to see my new tea roses after the rain and I’m not sorry about it. 😍🤩 #gardening
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I 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
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Stories 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
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I 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! 🥰
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I 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
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Just 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! 😍
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
New Substack is up. Hang in there, friends. The Goat, The Dragon, & Gardener's Time substack.com/@alexkachan/...
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The Goat, The Dragon, & Gardener's Time
Telling better stories and linear vs. cyclical time when the going gets rough.
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DeeBooked @deefurey.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
My 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
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I’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...
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Concord's Secret History Trailer
This is "Concord's Secret History Trailer" by Tilman Remme on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Had to go basic/functional with the signage 😅. Back says “Courage is contagious.” See you in the streets! #HandsOff
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
When 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...
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In the Garden Behind the Moon: Summary Review
What 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...
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Tomorrow 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.
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Coming 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
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
NYC 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
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Exeter 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.
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Bad news but I am undeterred. My ancestors are my crucible and my guides. Protect our libraries and museums. Teach real history. #ITooAmAmerica #history #smithsonian
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This is the material point.
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
NH 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
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I think this tree is telling me to protect my energy 🧘🏽‍♀️ 🤨. Love finding new tree friends! 💚 🌎 #authorsky
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Sometimes the internet is life. 💀
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Ten 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…. 💓
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
New 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...
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The Gift of Liminal Time
When the wound becomes the womb.
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
When 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
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
See 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
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Gradually 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... #authorsky
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Wind Bathing & Other Consolations
Living an embodied life and healing the Father Wound in times of fear, grief, or exhaustion
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Make it a practice, like morning coffee! ☕️ ✅ 😎
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Perfect pairing. #halftime
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
When the Dictionary has entered the chat. 💥
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A 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
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Dad 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
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Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Three 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
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