Shit Show, is a mystery that originates in Moscow during World War II and is solved on the 93rd floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center, half a century later, before the towers come tumbling down on 9/11. The story interweaves an array of characters, from writers and informants from Stalinist Russia in 1943 to moneyed New Yorkers amid the real estate boom of the 1990s. At its center is a riddle of two Soviet writers: a poet who in 1922 vanishes to Siberia to escape persecution and his friend, an Armenian writer who 20 years deliberately erases himself from history.
Shit Show
The Napper
"A sweet and smart coming-of-age novel with a heroine who knows the value of a good nap. Read The Napper and then get some rest." - Gary Shteyngart
For fans of Sally Rooney's NORMAL PEOPLE and Coco Mellors' CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN, THE NAPPER will have themes of an unsteady female protagonist, a Parisian love affair and self-reclamation. The Napper tells the story of a young expat woman from Vietnam. Thuy Nguyen is your typical spoiled rich international student in her freshman year of college, except she is depressed and cannot stop taking naps to escape from the flashbacks of her emotionally traumatic childhood. When she is not napping, she uses hook-up sex to fill the empty void inside her heart.
Comparable to Megan Abbott’s Dare Me, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, Roberto Bolano’s Savage Detectives, and Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads, I Was a Teenage Communist tells the story of a group of diverse, non-conformist teenagers in high school during the Reagan era. With punk rock music as its soundtrack a group of teens discover Marxism and romance in the heart of Ronald Reagan’s America and find that in Orange County California asserting one’s sexual, political and racial identity can be hazardous to one’s health.
I was a Teenage Communist
An Extraordinary Turn of Event
The anti-dystopian novel, An Extraordinary Turn of Events tells the story of Geronimo Vang, who dies of an overdose, is revived, and without memory or identity comes to NYC and reinvents himself. He finds success as a writer and he meets a Vietnamese woman, Minh Vang, who is also a writer and shares his sense of being an outsider. They fall passionately in love and marry. Things go wonderfully in their careers and their marriage- and also with the world at large.