A sharp-edged collected fiction on American values that blends the certainty of mythology with the horrors of distorted revisionist history. Judgment Day takes the shape of seven stories ranging in form, reality, and aspects of Greek mythology to illustrate how tragedy becomes desensitized for our cast of narrators and contributing witnesses. Some stories here use the […]
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"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”
