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A review by jessie_h
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
I'm not sure yet what my final rating for this short story collection will be as I'm still processing my thoughts and feelings about it. I will say the minimum will be a 4 stars. I read this book for book club and its one of those books that I'm glad someone pushed me to read because I probably would have never heard of it otherwise.
This book is complex, humorous, haunting, saddening, and intriguing in equal measures. The author (may he rest in peace) wrote about what he knew and it was about being Cambodian American, being the child of refugees who survived the Khmer Rouge, and being gay in a tight-knit minority community. The amount of generational trauma intermingled in these stories is enough to make you weep. I enjoyed reading this collection and I expect that it will be one of those books that I will never stop thinking about.
This book is complex, humorous, haunting, saddening, and intriguing in equal measures. The author (may he rest in peace) wrote about what he knew and it was about being Cambodian American, being the child of refugees who survived the Khmer Rouge, and being gay in a tight-knit minority community. The amount of generational trauma intermingled in these stories is enough to make you weep. I enjoyed reading this collection and I expect that it will be one of those books that I will never stop thinking about.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Drug use
Minor: Addiction and Genocide