Drafts of a Suicide Note

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"As far as I know, you can only die once..." But when Aetna Simmons disappears from her lonely Bermuda cottage, she leaves behind not one but ten suicide notes. Ten different suicide notes. And no other trace to speak of, not even a corpse, as if she'd never existed. Drafts of a Suicide Note tells the tale of the darkly enigmatic love letter writte

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"Dr. Wong's debut novel has been nominated for the PEN Open Book Award, Foreword Indies Book Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and other international literary honors. The novel has already been named a finalist for the Permafrost Book Prize, a semifinalist for the Conium Review Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Santa Fe Writers' Project Literary Award. "Writers praise the book's experiments with Bermuda's dialect, which French-Australian novelist J.L. Crozier calls 'a version of English utterly its own, so much so that it comes close to being a character in its own right." -- Bernews

Author Bio

Mandy-Suzanne Wong was the winner of the Digging Press Chapbook Series Award (Awabi, 2019) and the Eyelands International Flash Fiction Competition. Her work has also been shortlisted for the UK's Aeon Award. Her stories and essays appear in The Spectacle, The Hypocrite Reader, Conclave, Sonic Field, Quail Bell, The Island Review, and several other venues. She is a native of Bermuda, where she's writing a new novel and her first nonfiction book.