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Three Women of Chuck’s Donuts by Anthony Veasna So
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What’s the difference between birth and death, anyway? Aren’t they just the opening and closing of worlds?
Anthony Veasna So, “Somaly Serey, Serey Somaly” from Afterparties
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He thought about all the times he'd raged too hard in his life, how often he'd taken his parents too seriously, as an influence so immense he needed to uphold their expectations and also transgress against them, because to have just one reaction would never suffice.
— Anthony Veasna So, "We Would've Been Princes!" Afterparties
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Somethings can't be explained to death, he'd say. Guess they don't need to be, I'd say. That's how shit goes, we'd say.
Anthony Veasna So, “Afterparties”
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🇰🇭 Cambodia
Region: Southeast Asia
Afterparties
Author: Anthony Veasna So
272 pages, published 2021
Original language: English
Native author? Yes
Age: Adult?
Blurb:
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California, they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide and grapple with the complexities of race, sexuality, friendship, and family.
A high school badminton coach and failing grocery store owner tries to relive his glory days by beating a rising star teenage player. Two drunken brothers attend a wedding afterparty and hatch a plan to expose their shady uncle’s snubbing of the bride and groom. A queer love affair sparks between an older tech entrepreneur trying to launch a “safe space” app and a disillusioned young teacher obsessed with Moby-Dick. And in the sweeping final story, a nine-year-old child learns that his mother survived a racist school shooter.
Other reps: #lgbtq
Genres: #short story #contemporary #war #immigrant #refugee
My thoughts:
A set of short stories surrounding Cambodian-Americans in California. Not YA. It was hard to find much for Cambodia, I’m not sure why. I’m sure this collection is interesting.
Review to come.
Link to buy
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[Afterparties][Anthony Veasna So]
Che cosa vuol dire nascere negli Stati Uniti e portarsi dietro l’eredità di una tragedia, di Pol Pot, di chi non ce l’ha fatta a fuggire? Afterparties di Anthony Veasna So racconta la vivacità, i drammi, gli amori, i cambiamenti, i sogni e gli incubi dell
Essere davvero cambogiani, ma cosa significa? La figlia maggiore della proprietaria del Chuck’s Donuts ne farà il tema della sua tesina di filosofia, quando un misterioso uomo asiatico prenderà l’abitudine di entrare in nego- zio a notte fonda solo per ordinare una ciambella che ogni volta lascerà intatta sul tavolo. Per chi è nato in America da genitori khmer, del resto, è una domanda ossessiva…
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1/1 — “Maly, Maly, Maly” by Anthony Veasna So
from Afterparties, originally published in The Paris Review
I think what will stick with me here is how much it felt like an emotional arc of a story, rather than something more plotty. By the time it gets to Maly looking at the baby and saying “I’ve changed my mind. She’s actually pretty cute.” To which the narrator adds, “And this, out of everything, is what chokes me up,” I felt a little choked up as well.
The “plot” mostly feels like it is there for So to hang a bunch of great stuff on — about being Khmer, and Californian, and gay, and sometimes how those things intersect and other times just each on their own; about growing up, and the summer before you move away to college; getting high with friends; and movies and TV shows. My favorite passage might be the characters talking about Videodrome.
“The fuck’s a Videodrome?”
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“It’s about this lame white guy,” I explain, “who’s obsessed with a TV station called Videodrome... The station plays, like, snuff porn. You know, people are sex-tortured.”
“Why not jack off to actual snuff porn?” Maly asks. “Why even bother with a dull artsy film?”
“It’s a metaphor,” I answer.
“And the metaphor means . . . what?”
“It’s about how we are constantly violated by the media and . . . like . . . TV commercials . . .” ... “There’s this part of the movie,” I continue, “where the white guy’s stomach turns into a vagina, you know, and then some other white guy forces a videotape into his vagina-tummy. . . . The rape of our minds, or some shit.”
...
“That’s fucking idiotic.”
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Skeptical defeat was his go-to response for just about anything this familiar woman happened to be saying.
-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties: Stories
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Title: Afterparties | Author: Anthony Veasna So | Publisher: Ecco (2021)
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Do you listen to audio books, and if so, what are your favorites? thank you for the recommendations Sarah!
yes, I do!
some of my favorites to listen to on audio are:
fiction:
Becky Chambers, EVERYTHING, but here's the first book in her sublimely fantastic Wayfarers series.
Anthony, Veasna So, Afterparties
Courtney Summers, Sadie
Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, The Serial Killer
Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
nonfiction:
Jeanette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died
Ruha Benjamin, Viral Justice
Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Health Communism
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
Harsha Walia, Border and Rule
there are many more where that came from, but that's a great list to get you started. listened to all of them on libby ofc!! <3
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hello. I think you have a great blog and amazing tastes and I was wondering if you had any book recommendations? fiction or non-fiction, though I tend to read more fiction. I'm afraid I do not read enough books that were written outside North America/Europe and I would love to change that. anyway, sorry for the disturbance, I hope you are well <3
hi dear anon, i hope you're well too <3 im so sorry this has been sitting in my inbox forever! i hope you see it. thank u for ur kind words, i'm happy to share some recs! they'll be a mix of authors from north america/europe as well as outside those regions, and most will be writers of color bc that's who I tend to look for and read, i also gravitate towards fiction but ill try to do both. * = i've read it and would definitely recommend, and the rest are on my tbr that ive heard good things about and/or really want to get to myself.
I would also look out for presses that publish specifically translations and non-Western stories - two lines press, europa, transit books, open books, greywolf press - and you can look to who they're interacting w as well to expand your search for these kinds of books. happy reading <3
fiction:
vagabonds! by eloghosa osunde*
annie john by jamaica kincaid*
if an egyptian cannot speak english by noor naga*
the remainder by alia trabucco zerán, trans. sophie hughes*
sula by toni morrison*
scattered all over the earth by yoko tawada, trans. margaret mitsutani*
the thirty names of night by zeyn joukhader*
a passage north by anuk arudpragasam*
the hour of the star by clarice lispector*
an unkindness of ghosts by rivers solomon*
the umbrella country by bino a. realuyo*
the unpassing by chia-chia lin*
aquarium by david vann*
bright by duanwad pimwana, trans. mui pooposakul
hostages of memory by haitham hussein, trans. jona fras
mother of 1084 by mahasweta devi, trans. samik bandyopadhyay
on a woman's madness by astrid h. roemer, trans. lucy scott
the wild hunt by emma seckel
ornamental by juan cárdenas, trans. lizzie davis
i stared at the night of the city by bakhtiyar ali, trans. kareem abdulrahman*
men in the sun, and other palestinian stories by ghassan kanafani (various translators)*
funny boy by shyam selvadurai
violets by kyung-sook shin, trans. anton hur
afterparties by anthony veasna so
nonfiction:
a map to the door of no return by dionne brand*
out of the sun: on race and storytelling by esi edugyan*
uncommon measure: a journey through music, performance, and the science of time by natalie hodges*
from a native daughter: colonialism and sovereignty in hawai'i by haunani-kay trask
braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants by robin wall kimmerer
care work: dreaming disability justice by leah lakshmi piepzina-samarasinha
don't forget us here: lost and found at guantanamo by mansoor adayfi
the jakarta method: washington's anticommunist crusade and the mass murder program that shaped our world by vincent bevins
a still life: a memoir by josie george
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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.
Anthony Veasna So, “The Shop” from Afterparties
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Completely thrown, I found myself taking a step back, even though I knew, logically, that there was nothing outright offensive about her behavior. If anything, she probably had a better heart in her than I did—why else would she be reacting this strongly, years after the shooting had taken place? Yet I felt insulted. I wanted her to stop filtering the world through her own tears.
— Anthony Veasna So, "Generational Differences," Afterparties
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Before returning to the house, the brothers emptied the rest of the favors, methodically unwrapping the mesh around each, until not one chocolate was left uneaten. And they imagined aloud all the nice things they could do together. They imagined a future severed from their past mistakes, the history they inherited, a world in which--with no questions asked, no hesitation felt--they completed the simple actions they thought, discussed, and dreamed.
Anthony Veasna So, “Afterparties”
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Book 43, 2022: ' Afterparties Stories' by Anthony Veasna So.
Weltanschauung.
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