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A Nail the Evening Hangs On
In this staggering poetry debut, Monica Sok illuminates the experiences of Cambodian diaspora and reflects on America’s role in escalating the genocide in Cambodia.
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A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
A poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-“Fall-of-Saigon” with verse biography on the poet’s mother, Diệp Anh Nguyễn, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-women Vietnamese circus troupe.
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Anthony Veasna So: A Young Literary Star Makes His Posthumous Debut With ‘Afterparties’
Afterparties is the highly anticipated debut book by writer Anthony Veasna So, who died in December, at the age of 28, of a drug overdose.
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Before We Remember We Dream
Blends memoir and Southeast Asian history, myth, horror and science fiction to weave a spellbinding meditation on 45 years of the Lao diaspora.
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Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es)
Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, this literature retheorizes the connections among history, memory, and power and refashions the fields of American studies, Asian American studies, and refugee studies not around the narratives of American exceptionalism, immigration, and transnationalism but around the crucial issues of war, race, and violence-and the history and memories that are forged in the aftermath of war.
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Dance Among Elephants
It is a book that weaves the personal with the cultural, love with loss, and dancing with poetry. The poems express an element of what Lao America can be.
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