Painful past gets a novel approach

Writer's debut uses fantasy to tell China's forgotten story of WWII

NEW YORK - Not a single copy of The Poppy War was left, even for Rebecca F. Kuang herself, after a signing event at BookCon 2018 held in Javits Center over the weekend.

A total of 300 plus copies were sold and signed in a single day. That was a pretty good record for the debut novelist, who just graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.