Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
-Go home - is always a slur, but often also an impossibility; this collection explores the words' personal and political dimensions.
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"A stunning multigenre anthology that simultaneously conveys the inherent diversity of human experience, as well as humanity's most universal longing encapsulated in one endlessly unpacked word: home. We all need more books like this."--Keaton Patterson, Brazos Bookstore
Asian diasporic writers imagine "home" in the twenty-first century through an array of fiction, memoir, and poetry. Both urgent and meditative, Go Home moves beyond the model minority myth and showcases the singular intimacies of individuals figuring out what it means to belong.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of the novel Harmless Like You. She received her MFA from the UW-Madison and was an Asian American Writers' Workshop fellow.
Viet Thanh Nguyen is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, as well as the short story collection The Refugees.
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"The notion of home has always been elusive. But as evidenced in these stories, poems, and testaments, perhaps home is not so much a place, but a feeling one embodies. I read this book and see my people--see us--and feel, in our collective outsiderhood, at home." --Ocean Vuong, author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Asian diasporic writers imagine "home" in the twenty-first century through an array of fiction, memoir, and poetry. Both urgent and meditative, this anthology moves beyond the model-minority myth and showcases the singular intimacies of individuals figuring out what it means to belong.
Synopsis
An anthology of Asian diasporic writers musing on the notion of "home"--and the possibilities of outsiderhood and belonging.
"I read this book and see my people--see us--and feel, in our collective outsiderhood, at home." --Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
"To be from nowhere is the state of Asian diaspora, but there is also a wild humor and imagination that comes from being underestimated, rarely counted, hardly seen. Here, we begin to draw the hopeful outlines of a collective history for those so disparate yet often lumped together." --Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart
Asian diasporic writers imagine "home" in the twenty-first century through an array of fiction, memoir, and poetry. Both urgent and meditative, this anthology moves beyond the model-minority myth and showcases the singular intimacies of individuals figuring out what it means to belong.