The Girl Before Her by Line Papin
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French Vietnamese writer Line Papin’s stunning English-
language debut, The Girl Before Her offers a window into the existential anguish of displacement as
experienced by a child on the cusp of becoming a woman. Part meditation, part family history, part message in a bottle to her younger selves, Papin’s lyrical work of autofiction explores what it takes to embrace one’s multiracial, transnational self by making peace with the generations of
women who’ve come before.
Nothing Follows by Lan P. Duong
The title of this debut collection, Nothing Follows, is reappropriated from a government document establishing the beginning of a refugee family’s time in the United States. At every coordinate of their lives, the refugee family provides affidavits, letters, and reams of paperwork as they work co beseech those in power to grant them “family reunification” visas for those they had to leave behind in 1975 after the fall of Saigon.
On Being a Writer: Vietnamese Diasporas in Dialogue
Forthcoming 2023The first DVAN Writers Residency brought together ten writers and three academics from five different countries to participate in a week-long residency at...
Hà Nội at Midnight by Bảo Ninh
Of the twelve short stories appearing in Hà Nội at Midnight, ten are appearing in English for the first time. Bringing to life the...
Constellations of Eve by Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood
Rosewood’s exquisite and experimental novel in stories offers a transfixing meditation on love, envy, and obsession. Each iteration builds upon the previous one, culminating...
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora
stories told dispel stereotypes and take on the complex challenges of colonialism, militarization, love, resistance, family, migration, and more. They reveal the intersectional...