That sensation of not knowing what you’re writing towards, yet learning the answer that completes the half-formed sentence with just as much immediacy is a thrill that I’ve come to embrace with reluctant passion over time. It is why I contradict myself on a daily basis. I both am and am not writing.
Nicole-Anne's bookshelf: read
"I'd lived with misunderstanding for so long, I'd stopped even viewing it as bad. It was just there, embedded in everything I loved."
AFTERPARTIES is a short story collection of Cambodian Americans in California. Many of the main charac...
4.5 stars. I first heard an excerpt of this book at a virtual reading, ready by K-Ming Chang herself, when the book first came out in 2020. What a stunner; every sentence is full of poetry and new associations that make my mind spin and ...
4.5 / Feels and sounds like spoken word poetry in my head; it would be an honor to hear this work at a slam.
Favorite poem: “was it good for you/like blood on dry ground”
