PHOENIXA, The Nest: A Mystical Quest for the Cheng Legacy

PHOENIXA: THE NEST

A Mystical Quest for The Cheng Legacy

A novel

by J.J. Cheng

Phoenixa, rising from the ashes of her ancestors, the six-and-a-half-year-old kite-flying Phoenix-riding Chinese girl embarks on a mystical journey into China's tumultuous past, searching for her Renaissance Grandpa who read her Shan Hai Jing, The Classic of Mountains and Seas, seeking cures for human greed.

From the interior of a traditional Beijing courtyard to the top of a giant Wu Tong Tree, Phoenixa found her home being dislocated from safety to danger. A relentless Red force ready to strip her bare. Fortunately, as a secret guardian, the enduring incandescent Feng Huang, the Phoenix, has kept her amused and protected, at least for now.

Written in the genre-defining style now called "Mystical Realism", Cheng tapped into the subconscious and beyond in search for human goodness. Cheng's debut novel is stunningly visual, fantastical, dreamlike yet achingly real, demystifying China, as it offers a luminous insider's view on why and how the Dragon roared. Phoenixa's journey is one of profound metamorphosis, taboo-breaking, and spiritual awakening. It is a story of courage, of hope, of madness, of redemption, of humanity at the brink of self-destruction.

PHOENIXA: The Nest, A Mystical Quest for the Cheng Legacy, is the first book in the PHOENIXA Trilogy, A Mystical Quest for Modern China, written by the China-born Chinese American Author J.J.Cheng. A genre-defying work of transcendent historical fiction, it fuses myth, ancestral memory, and metaphysics. Catalyzed by the loss of her treasured family courtyard in central Beijing, Cheng resurrects a pivotal chapter of China's history - its social indoctrination and cultural demolition-revealing the contours of brave individual souls in the face of national catastrophes.