GHOST OI: a novel: Georgia Review Books
Autor lawrence-minh bùi davisen Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2027
It’s a book of hidden histories and the lonely work of recovering queer ancestry forgotten since precolonial times. It’s also a book of ceding control, accepting limits of knowing for narrator and reader alike: All the ghosts of the novel are “channeled” not by the author but by other viet diasporic writers and artists—Ocean Vuong, Cathy Linh Che, Monique Truong, Mimi Khúc, among others—then incorporated into the book without questions or edits. The ghosts simply appear, and we have to figure out how to make sense of them or live with the possibility of never being able to. The result is a reimagining of refugee life and death and of what it means to commune, in broken language, with our ghosts.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781496250650
ISBN-10: 1496250656
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: 98 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 mm
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria Georgia Review Books
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1496250656
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: 98 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 mm
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria Georgia Review Books
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
lawrence-minh bùi davis is a refugee diaspore, curator, editor, writer, and troublemaker who lives as a guest on the ancestral lands of the Piscataway Nation. He cofounded (with Gerald Maa) the arts antiprofit Asian American Literary Review and serves as editor in chief. He is cofounder of the Asian American Literature Festival, the AALF Collective, and the Center for Refugee Poetics. GHOST ƠI is his debut novel.
Recenzii
“A scintillating and daring debut of enormous heart and power, the novel looks at the entanglement of historic hauntings and forges new ghosts from which we might know ourselves, our pasts, and reckon with each other through tender, undeniable grace.”—Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and The Emperor of Gladness
“This is queer auto-ghost-busting-fiction. I love the hauntingness of the work. For better or worse, our ghosts stay with us.”—Karen Tei Yamashita, Lifetime Achievement Awardee from the National Book Foundation
“lawrence-minh bùi davis has written a tender, generous novel teeming with ghosts. Reporter Karen Nguyễn covers Hurricane Katrina for her father’s community newspaper but has to move on when she realizes there’s so much more to see, say, and feel than a newspaper can cover. She begins practicing a martial art called khí công and finds out that Vietnamese shamanism lives on in the queer diaspora. She befriends an eccentric auntie who cares for her community through an empire built on drycleaning. She tracks the vicious activities of the Ku Klux Klan against Vietnamese fishers in Galveston, Texas. Through letters to her newfound lover and messy yet passionate activist work with other displaced people on Indigenous lands, she struggles to figure out who she really is and what really matters. GHOST ƠI is an expansive and perceptive novel committed to the lives, loves, and losses of Vietnamese Americans, imagined and voiced with ears and eyes wide open to both the living and the dead.”—Larissa Lai, author of The Lost Century and Iron Goddess of Mercy
“A cross-genre ghost story told around the decolonizing encampment fire, lawrence-minh bùi davis’s revelatory debut demonstrates the ghost work at the heart of queer, settler colonial, and refugee critique—how any uprising and raising of consciousness requires us to listen vigilantly to our already risen and always vociferous dead.”—Brandon Som, author of Tripas, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
“With Ghost ƠI, lawrence-minh bùi davis has un/crafted a text so spectral, so responsibly in touch with the dead, it becomes a living thing, a breath beyond the ‘blurred tension between could be/never was,’ an assemblage of potential genre-becomings. And what is a genre if not a brief body we pass through to become more capable of loving, of seeing, our people? Never since the likes of Elias Khoury (allah yerhamo) have I read a work that loves, and commits its whole self to loving, so capaciously, rhizomatically, and world-endingly. It takes a truly exceptional comrade to write a text like this, as visually stunning as it is musically engaging, as selfless and life affirming as it is collaborative and visionary, as historically rooted as it is concerned with the spectral dailiness of living.”—George Abraham, author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America: Poems
“This is queer auto-ghost-busting-fiction. I love the hauntingness of the work. For better or worse, our ghosts stay with us.”—Karen Tei Yamashita, Lifetime Achievement Awardee from the National Book Foundation
“lawrence-minh bùi davis has written a tender, generous novel teeming with ghosts. Reporter Karen Nguyễn covers Hurricane Katrina for her father’s community newspaper but has to move on when she realizes there’s so much more to see, say, and feel than a newspaper can cover. She begins practicing a martial art called khí công and finds out that Vietnamese shamanism lives on in the queer diaspora. She befriends an eccentric auntie who cares for her community through an empire built on drycleaning. She tracks the vicious activities of the Ku Klux Klan against Vietnamese fishers in Galveston, Texas. Through letters to her newfound lover and messy yet passionate activist work with other displaced people on Indigenous lands, she struggles to figure out who she really is and what really matters. GHOST ƠI is an expansive and perceptive novel committed to the lives, loves, and losses of Vietnamese Americans, imagined and voiced with ears and eyes wide open to both the living and the dead.”—Larissa Lai, author of The Lost Century and Iron Goddess of Mercy
“A cross-genre ghost story told around the decolonizing encampment fire, lawrence-minh bùi davis’s revelatory debut demonstrates the ghost work at the heart of queer, settler colonial, and refugee critique—how any uprising and raising of consciousness requires us to listen vigilantly to our already risen and always vociferous dead.”—Brandon Som, author of Tripas, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
“With Ghost ƠI, lawrence-minh bùi davis has un/crafted a text so spectral, so responsibly in touch with the dead, it becomes a living thing, a breath beyond the ‘blurred tension between could be/never was,’ an assemblage of potential genre-becomings. And what is a genre if not a brief body we pass through to become more capable of loving, of seeing, our people? Never since the likes of Elias Khoury (allah yerhamo) have I read a work that loves, and commits its whole self to loving, so capaciously, rhizomatically, and world-endingly. It takes a truly exceptional comrade to write a text like this, as visually stunning as it is musically engaging, as selfless and life affirming as it is collaborative and visionary, as historically rooted as it is concerned with the spectral dailiness of living.”—George Abraham, author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America: Poems
Descriere
GHOST ƠI is a book of recovering hidden histories and possibilities, including those of queer ancestors and shamans forgotten since precolonial times.