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Oct 12, 2021 · Afterparties. by Anthony Veasna So. reviewed by Richard Scott Larson. Anthony Veasna So’s razor-sharp and wholly original debut, Afterparties, poses a question in its opening story: “What does it mean to be Khmer, anyway?”. And this is a question So’s characters will grapple with throughout the collection. At the heart of these nine ...
Jul 27, 2021 · Four or five of the stories in “Afterparties” are good enough that the reader senses that he had a vast amount of soul and spirit in his account, and that he’d only just begun to draw from ...
Aug 3, 2021 · Afterparties fits within the small category of brilliant short story collections placed within but not bounded by self-contained American ethnic communities, in which the characters, emotions, and relationships transcend their communities into an ecumenical American-ness. So displays an huge emotional range in these nine stories, with only two mild disappointments.
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Aug 28, 2021 · So much in these stories is about how tragedy permeates everything (even – perhaps, especially – when we’re trying not to let it) that attempting to read the collection whilst ignoring the loss of the author felt inimical to the book itself. Afterparties is a collection of 10 stories, each one an intricate world unto itself. When placed ...
978-0-06-304990-1. Afterparties is a short story collection by writer Anthony Veasna So, published in 2021 by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins. The collection won the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize for Best First Book and the Ferro-Grumley Award, which is awarded to LGBTQ fiction. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The story "Superking Son Scores ...
Aug 3, 2021 · Philosophical, Queer, Angry, Romantic, Defiant: 'Afterparties' Contains Multitudes. Anthony Veasna So 's debut story collection Afterparties contains multitudes, embodying both the author's ...
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Aug 1, 2021 · Writer Anthony Veasna So's debut short story collection, Afterparties, is being published after his death last December. There's a bleak humor to the way So mixes the serious and frivolous. The ...
