PRE-ORDER Packages Asian American Literature & Fiction Lia struggles with schoolwork

Lia struggles with schoolwork

her memoir is out and she has to promote it

but there is little trace of Annalee and her family fears the worst

She is trapped between the oppressiveness of her father’s failing bookshop and still being an apprentice in a man’s profession

what if there are meanies on the bus who might pour chocolate milk on your head

PRE-ORDER Packages Asian American Literature & Fiction Lia struggles with schoolworkOUT SEPTEMBER 22, 2026 Packages is a novel about the stories we tell to surviveand the ones that haunt us when survival isnt enough. Set against the charged intimacy of a Southern college town, Danny ODeas debut follows Michael McKnight, a young man orbiting grief, desire, and moral uncertainty as he navigates friendship, sexuality, faith, and the quiet violence of complicity. When a series of mysterious packages begin arriving at an off campus house,