Taipei at Daybreak

An Asian American coming-of-age novel set amongst social protests of the early 2010s in East Asia.

In 2014, a veteran of Occupy Wall Street, QQ arrives in Taiwan and finally finds what he’s been looking for in the Sunflower Movement – a grassroots campaign of militant young people that looks set to overthrow the existing government.

Setting up an online newspaper, Daybreak, to represent the movement to the outside world, QQ also battles with self-destructive, violent impulses that drive him t...