Sigrid Song https://sigridsong.neocities.org/ Sigrid Song en-US Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Tuesday Class https://sigridsong.neocities.org/notes/2026-10-05-the-tuesday-class/ ni:///sha-256;zG7iUoiXNLJwnNcQsQ3YAwx3EHNC95bwZrQ2I6F1XAk Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every Tuesday, Wally Tam teaches twelve people at the community center how to make scallion pancakes. He tells them the dough needs hot water and ten minutes of rest. He does not tell them that he has made the same pancakes at Harbor Garden for twenty-seven years.

In October, darkness reaches East Superior Street before the class is finished. Wally packs the uneven pancakes into paper cartons. Some are thick at the center. One has no scallions. He brings them back to the restaurant anyway.

Food is how this family says what it cannot say. Wally teaches the recipe to strangers because teaching it to June would require a conversation. The pancakes are simpler.

]]> notes Ice Out https://sigridsong.neocities.org/notes/2026-10-03-ice-out/ ni:///sha-256;t7QvNFCi7aZ-27ud4xiFMZyv4H5RtkyRZlOcHisM80g Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT I am writing about the time of year when the ice on Lake Superior begins to break up. The sun shines, but the water is still cold. In my book Ice Out, I wanted to capture this moment when the lake and the city of Duluth are still connected, but also starting to separate. The Aerial Lift Bridge answers the ships, its steel frame a reminder of the lake's power. June Tam, the protagonist, drives across the bridge on a sleet-covered day. The bridge is the first thing I put in, and it sets the tone for the rest of the story.

]]> notes About Sigrid Song https://sigridsong.neocities.org/about/ ni:///sha-256;VfJLv0qsw4W2eU3uGpHH2gaHxi-zHT-3VODqcLNxMAc Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The name joins the two traditions the books draw on: a Norwegian given name for Minnesota, where the stories are set, and a Chinese surname for the romance dramas whose restraint they borrow.

The publisher

Causeway Services, the 561 Group's public imprint, publishes Sigrid Song's books and answers readers' letters. If a book gets something wrong about Duluth, about Cantonese families or about bridges, tell us at shop.561.group, and the next edition will be better for it.

]]> sigrid-song Sigrid Song https://sigridsong.neocities.org/ ni:///sha-256;R16BDR8q_q-b8ben7UM-JPhyFNOhugwtaSKHR40GE5w Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sigrid Song writes slow, warm love stories set on the shore of Lake Superior. They are told in the register of the Chinese romance drama: love shown in small attentions before anyone says it, slow to arrive and years deep. They end the way an American romance promises, out loud and never in doubt.

The first is Ice Out. June Tam comes home to Duluth for one winter to help run her family's Cantonese restaurant, and Anders Holm, who raises the Aerial Lift Bridge, has loved her for eleven years without a word. It opens the Duluth Romance, part of the Unsalted Sea series.

About Sigrid Song says where her name comes from.

]]> sigrid-song books Ice Out https://sigridsong.neocities.org/books/ice-out/ ni:///sha-256;c_av6QQG5RugtBvOsFvkgS_i4o7E5qUByYRyKi-ZEqg Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The cover of Ice Out by Sigrid Song

A Slow-Burn Duluth Romance

Book 1 of the Duluth Romance, in the Unsalted Sea series.

June Tam comes home to Duluth for one winter to help run her family's Cantonese restaurant after her father's stroke. Anders Holm, who washed dishes there at sixteen and now raises the Aerial Lift Bridge, has loved her for eleven years without a word. When the aunties start matchmaking, she proposes they pretend to date until the Lantern Festival. A slow, warm, closed-door love story in the register of a Chinese drama, with the ending an American romance promises.

Where to read it

Who publishes it

Causeway Services publishes it.

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