You Have Five Pages, Quan Barry's When I'm Gone Look for Me in the East, to Tell Me You're Good.

The first chapter can make or break a reader's engagement with a story. We as writers must craft brilliant opening pages in order to hook those picky readers, so let's study the stories of others to see how they do it! The first pages of When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East by Quan Barry contain beautiful prose with a mysterious narrator who has a journey he must complete. This journey's goal we do not know, but we do know this monk protagonist is driven to move forward despite the memories of his brother rooted in the past. What will you make of these first five pages? Let's find out!