Watering Heaven
"Exuberant.Wildly inventive.Grungy with global resonance for the 21st century.This debut collection of fiction rides bareback over the metaphysical divide of Asia and the USA. An astonishing energy prevails. This is definitely a writer to watch." -Xu Xi,Access"A surreal menagerie of short stories that sometimes veer into the realm of magic realism. There is something both slightly haunting yet inviting in these tales of love and loss that are both sensitive and intelligent. He's a writer to look out for." -Sang Pak,Wait Until Twilight"Edgy, clever and memorably innovative, he masterfully treats his panoply  of characters.The untainted directness of language as well as his surreal brilliancy reminds one of the very best of Borges, Calvino, Pynchon.Here is an author who singlehandedly breaks the sun in half with sheer novelty and song." -Leonore Wilson,Western Solstice"This debut collection probes the membrane of modern meaninglessness in consistently passionate and original prose. With its inquiry into love's very anatomy, Liu's brave new world comes full-force with a spinning intensity, keeping us on the edge of our postwar, pre-apocalyptic seats. Encore!" -Leza Lowitz,Green Tea To Go"Expertly attuned to the zeitgeist-the tangle of our social networks, our cubicle culture, the language of science-the brilliant, haunting stories in Watering Heaven are always leading us somewhere deeper yet: that fathomless reservoir of human need and longing." -Tim Horvath,Understories"If there was ever literary proof that the need for love and validation drives all human actions, then Peter Tieryas Liu’s haunting collection of short stories would provide it." -Hyphen Magazine"Watering Heaven is brilliant ​and one of the best collections I’ve recently read. It’s surreal and funny and ​beautiful, even heartbreaking at times." -Monkeybicycle, an imprint ofDzanc Books"Some of what Liu writes is so disgusting and alarming, it took my breath away." -Prick of the Spindle"Liu weaves Chinese folklore and magic realism through his stories and creates many stories which would entertain fans of Andrew Kaufman and Aimee Bender." -View FromHere Magazine"Watering Heaven by Peter Tieryas Liu simply stunned me with its sheer inventiveness and its celebration of the darkness that sometimes seem to be spreading over the urban landscapes of the world." -The Reading Life"This collection is an eclectic mix of profundity with surrealism and the avante garde." -Booklover Book Reviews"Peter Tieryas Liu’s provocative collection is bold, daring, and abnormally beautiful." -JMWW Magazine"Peter Tieryas Liu has a strong voice, and his prose is filled with rich and eccentric imagery." -Hellnotes"It isn’t often (at least in my experience) that you find a writer such  as Peter Tieryas Liu; a writer who conjures up a world that has a  definite sense of reality, but is mixed with a beautiful and bizarre  sense of magic and pathos." -Black Heart Magazine