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“More than that, political art that seeks only to speak to this moment tends to flatten narrative in its attempt to be relevant.” Kevin Nguyen doesn’t think we need timely novels. | Lit Hub Craft
“We were to present ourselves as good immigrants. The kind that would never overstay a tourist visa, then mouth off about it in a book three decades later.” Jill Damatac on family, home, and how immigration splits the self. | Lit Hub Memoir