Amélie Wen Zhao’s debut YA novel Blood Heir, originally scheduled for publication June and postponed earlier this year, will be published on November 19 by Delacorte. In January, Delacorte postponed indefinitely their publication at the author’s request, after some online readers accused Zhao of racism and insensitivity to the history of American slavery. Though Zhao had apologized “to the book community” at the time and expressed gratitude “to those who have raised questions,” now she tells the NYT that she reread her book several times and decided her critics were not right. She revised the novel, but says the final […]
