Alexandra Chan Author
@alexkachan.bsky.social
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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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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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! 🩶🩶🩶
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Draw With Me! Moon, Have Mercy: Chapter 1
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August 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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! 🩶🩶🩶
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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
August 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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
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...
August 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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...
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...
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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August 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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...
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!
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July 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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
www.alexandrachan.com/start
Summer Send of The Glimmering is coming this weekend. A little less news, a little more letter 🥰. Sign up here: www.alexandrachan.com/start
July 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Summer Send of The Glimmering is coming this weekend. A little less news, a little more letter 🥰. Sign up here: www.alexandrachan.com/start
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...
July 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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...
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?
July 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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?
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.
July 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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.
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? 😍
June 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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? 😍
Yahoo! I love great books finding their way to great people! ☺️🩶
The best kind of surprise just arrived! How gorgeous is this?? I've heard the best things about Moon Have Mercy by @asmiyasaki.bsky.social. Thank you, @alexkachan.bsky.social! I'm digging in now.
May 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Yahoo! I love great books finding their way to great people! ☺️🩶
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. 😌
May 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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. 😌
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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May 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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
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.
May 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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.
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
May 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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
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...
www.audiobooks.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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...
www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫 we are living in hell.
This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years.
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May 13, 2025 at 12:46 AM
😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫 we are living in hell.
Went to see my new tea roses after the rain and I’m not sorry about it. 😍🤩 #gardening
May 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Went to see my new tea roses after the rain and I’m not sorry about it. 😍🤩 #gardening
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
#aapiheritagemonth #starwars
Happy Star Wars Day! I reference The Mandalorian in this post, but I think this book is perfect for any of the original six movie fans and the animated series. 🤗 #starwars #books #booksky #bookrec #scifibook
May 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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
#aapiheritagemonth #starwars
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
May 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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
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! 🥰
May 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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! 🥰
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
April 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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
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! 😍
April 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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! 😍
New Substack is up. Hang in there, friends.
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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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April 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
New Substack is up. Hang in there, friends.
The Goat, The Dragon, & Gardener's Time substack.com/@alexkachan/...
The Goat, The Dragon, & Gardener's Time substack.com/@alexkachan/...