An Echo in the City By K. X. Song (Grade 7-9)

An Echo in the City follows two seventeen-year-olds, Phoenix a high school student intent on escaping Hong Kong to go to America for university and Kai, an aspiring police officer. The two of them find themselves in love, but on opposite sides of the 2019 Hong Kong protests as the city descends further and further into political turmoil.

K.X. Song is a writer with connections to both Hong Kong and Shanghai. An Echo in the City is her debut young adult novel and won the Freeman Book Award and was listed as a Best Book in 2023 by multiple institutions She is also the author of The Night Ends with Fire, her debut fantasy novel.