On Tour 05/05/26-06/29/26 “Staring Into The Sun” by Madelyn Postman

Release Date: May 5, 2026

About The Book:

England, 2015. Madelyn dreads telling her young children about her mother, who died by suicide decades earlier. But when her son asks about his skin tone and eye color, she’s compelled to share the painful truth.

A Cantonese village, 1895. Emigrating to America seems inevitable for teenage Song, whose family is starving during a drought. His grandmother tells him about Chinese emigrants’ ordeals and predicts a fate that will bring tragedy upon his descendants.

Oakland, 1921. Henri is held responsible for a theft at his brother-in-law’s store. By 1955, he owns the store but resents his business rival, whose philandering son has married Henri’s daughter Corri.

San Francisco Bay Area, 1995. Corri relies, perhaps too much, on kindness and spirituality to get her through life. She shares a crucial poem with her granddaughter Madelyn.

About The Author:

Madelyn Postman is a Nevada native who spent her formative years in San Francisco and New England. She holds a BA in Visual Arts and Art History from Brown University and has been on her junior year abroad since 1992. She now lives outside London with her husband, two children, Labradoodle, black cat, fish, and a gecko. Her fiction and nonfiction writing has been published on three continents. www.madelynpostman.com

Social Media:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madelynpostman

Book Blurbs:

Postman takes on an ambitious scope: recounting multiple generations of her ancestors’ immigration to America, their successes and losses, and bravely confronting her mother’s suicide in the process. She skillfully weaves narration throughout the book and handles difficult topics with sensitivity and grace.” —Chris Lu, former U.S. Ambassador, Deputy Secretary of Labor, White House Cabinet Secretary

“Madelyn Postman’s beautiful book traces the roots of her Chinese American family in a quest to understand a painful secret she’s borne since before she can remember. Her writing about love, family and identity is unique, unvarnished and deeply moving.” —Quil Lawrence, NPR Correspondent and author of Invisible Nation (Walker Books, 2009)

“Staring into the Sun is a prismatic exploration of those intergen-erational forces that invisibly infiltrate our lives and shape who we become. In this genealogical voyage spurred by loss, readers meet an ensemble cast of characters from different times, from different cultural milieus, all of whom point the way back home, to a rediscovery of family and self. An ambitious work of intro- spection that evocatively links biography with history.” —M. F. Alvarez, PhD, author of The Paradox of Suicide and Creativity: Authentications of Human Existence (Lexington Books, 2020) and Unraveling: An Autoethnography of Suicide and Renewal (Routledge, 2023)

Bloggers On Tour:

May 5th- Lindas Book Obsession https://www.facebook.com/lindasbookobsession/

May 5th-Miss W Book Reviews https://instagram.com/misswbookreviews

May 15th- Books and Coffee MX https://instagram.com/booksandcoffeemx

May 18th- Sarahs Bookish Reviews https://instagram.com/sarahs.bookish.reviews

June 2nd – Novels and Latte Book Club –https://www.facebook.com/groups/357651988042629

June 8th- Tammy Reads https://instagram.com/tammyreads62

June 11th- Nature Books and Coffee https://instagram.com/nature.books.and.coffee

June 11th- Christina Luvs 2 Read https://instagram.com/christinaluvs2re

June 18th- Rozier Reads and Wine https://instagram.com/rozierreadsandwine

June 19th- CMT Loves Wine and Books https://instagram.com/cmtloveswineandbooks

June 21st- Subakka Bookstuff https://instagram.com/subakka.bookstuff