Abigail Savitch-Lew

Dear friends, mentors, and colleagues, 

In these difficult times, I hope to offer a bit of good news: my debut novel, Livonia Chow Mein, will be published by Simon & Schuster in April 2026. It’s been a labor of love for ten years. Here’s the Publishers Weekly notice:

Asian American Writers’ Workshop Margins Fellow Abigail Savitch-Lew’s LIVONIA CHOW MEIN, an expansive intergenerational and multiethnic narrative centered on a Chinese restaurant in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, and the role its descendants play in the changing dynamics of the neighborhood and its residents, to Yahdon Israel at Simon & Schuster, in a pre-empt, by Jim McCarthy at the literary agency Dystel, Goderich & Bourret.

You can read a synopsis of the book here.

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Last but not least, please accept my most sincere gratitude. It’s because of everyone on this list — because of your support, your insights, or your ongoing quest for equity and justice — that this book will soon exist.

Regards,

Abby