SEESAW
a novel by Hwei Chen
100K words | 515 pages
LGBTQ speculative fiction
*currently unpublished; in the submission pool!
repped by: Tasneem Motala @ Belcastro Agency
Thirteen years after Lienna believed Yin to be dead, the two unexpectedly meet again—yet on opposite sides of the line.
Under American occupation, 1982 colonial Kaajian is a bitter dystopia at the brink of revolution. Formerly exploited as a weapon in this system, twenty-six year old Lienna is now nothing more than a failure and a coward—but when the cynical and cunning Yin assassinates a high-ranking general in a daring move for the resistance movement, Lienna is forced to desert by her side.
Unable to confront what tore them apart thirteen years ago, Lienna and Yin are now pitted against one another in the struggle for power and survival even as the wretched truth becomes more stark day by day: Yin is slowly dying, having undergone a cryptic government operation that allows one to weaponize their own body—blood manipulation.
Diving headfirst into the memory of youth, colonialism, and resistance, Lienna and Yin find themselves falling for each other all over again. But the war still looms over their heads, and in the wake of the revolution’s last stand amidst the U.S. Cold War rampage for global control, one question becomes central—what is the cost of freedom?
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