“Editor’s Note” (Rowan Hisayo Buchanan — London, UK)
“Foreword” (Viet Thanh Nguyen — Los Angeles, CA; teaches at
University of Southern California)
“Release” (Alexander Chee — Hanover, NH; teaches at Dartmouth
College)
“Things that Remind Me of Home” (Kimiko Hahn — New York, NY;
teaches at Queens College)
“Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying”
(Alice Sola Kim — New York, NY)
“Ramadan Red White and Blue” (Mohja Kahf — Fayetteville, AR;
teaches at University of Arkansas)
“My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at
Sears” (Mohja Kahf)
“The Place Where I Live Is Different Because I Live There” (Wendy
Xu — New York, NY)
“Sit Bones” (Sharlene Teo — London, UK)
“Magritte” (Wo Chan — Brooklyn, NY)
“what do i make of my face / except” (Wo Chan)
“Aama, 1978-2015” (Muna Gurung — Kathmandu, Nepal)
“Delicately, I Beg of You” (Muhammad Amirul bin Muhamad —
Singapore)
“The Words Honey and Moon” (Jennifer Tseng — Brookline, MA)
“Post Trauma / Costero / Pygmy Right Whale / ???????? / Kalapani”
(Rajiv Mohabir — Honolulu, HI)
“The Unintended” (Gina Apostol — New York, NY)
“Meet a Muslim” (Fariha Roisin — Montreal, Canada)
“Elegy” (Esme Weijun Wang — San Francisco, CA)
“Cul-de-Sac” (Chaya Babu — Brooklyn, NY)
“Esmeralda” (Mia Alvar — New York, NY)
“Love Poems for the Border Patrol” (Amitava Kumar — Poughkeepsie,
NY; teaches at Vassar College)
“Blue Tears” (Karissa Chen — New York, NY)
“Tigress” (Rowan Hisayo Buchanan)
“The Stained Veil” (Gaiutra Bahadur — New York, NY)
“I’m Charlie Tuna” (Jason Koo — Brooklyn, NY; teaches at Quinnipiac
University)
“Bon Chul Koo and the Hall of Fame” (Jason Koo)
“Chicken & Stars” (T Kira Madden — New York, NY)
“For Mitsuye Yamada on her 90th Birthday” (Marilyn Chin — San
Diego, CA; teaches at San Diego State University)
“The Faintest Echo of Our Language” (Chang-Rae Lee — Stanford, CA;
teaches at Stanford University)
Bookseller blurbs for the galley will include: Brookline Booksmith
(confirmed), Deep Vellum (confirmed), Brazos (confirmed), McNally
Jackson (will try), City Lights (will try)
Confirmed author blurbs for the galley, definitely for finished
book, currently include: Jenny Zhang, Ocean Vuong, Ruth Ozeki,
Jessica Hagedorn, Monica Youn, Yumi Sukagawa, Meena Alexander.
Other prominent Asian American writers and academics have been
contacted, and we're currently awaiting responses.
Galleys will be available in late March 2017 for sales conference,
featured at BEA 2017, and for a national print and online media
mailing (see below):
Sending advance copies to the following publications (both print
and online):
General/regional: LA Times, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune,
Village Voice, The New York Times, Chicago Daily Herald, Buzzfeed,
Huffington Post, VICE Media, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco
Chronicle, Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Education, Daily Dot,
Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times, TrendingNY, Daily Beast,
Harper's, VICE, Buzzfeed, Village Voice, Chicago Tribune, Los
Angeles Times, Oregonian, Philadelphia Inquirer
Literary: Guernica, n+1, Bookforum, New York Review of Books, LA
Review of Books, The Millions, LitHub, The Paris Review, The
Believer, Bloomsbury Review, Rain Taxi, The Rumpus, BookPage, Full
Stop, Book Riot, BOMB, Granta, Boston Review, Brooklyn Review
Women's interest and/or feminist pop culture: Ms., Bitch, Bust,
VICE Broadly, Jezebel, The Hairpin, Salon, xojane.com, Feministing,
Oprah, Elle, Marie Claire, Nylon, Refinery29, Complex
Asian American interest: Angry Asian Man, Hyphen Magazine,
ReAppropriate, 8Asians, The Aerogram, HapaMama, The Nerds of Color,
Mochi Magazine, ALIST, Banana magazine
Political coverage: Mother Jones, The Atlantic, The Nation, Slate,
Colorlines, RH Reality Check, Mic, Truthout.org
Poetry-specific: Poets & Writers, Poetry Magazine, Academy of
American Poets (Poem a Day feature, reviews), Verse Daily, Kenyon
Review, Divedapper
Trades: Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus, Library Journal,
School Library Journal, CHOICE, Shelf Awareness, Horn Book
Launch events in: NYC (minimum two events, one at the AAWW event
space), Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and
London. Launch events will involve editor, as well as local
contributors, and with the exception of the AAWW-hosted event, will
all be in bookstores.
Promotion on editor's website (https://rowanhisayo.com) and social
media (1k+ Twitter followers); promotions through Asian American
Writers' Workshop website (http://aaww.org), social media (9.5k+
Twitter followers, 23.5k+ Facebook followers), and newsletter
mailing list; contributors have also pledged to promote on their
own networks and have already begun to spread buzz about the book!
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of the novel Harmless
Like You. She is British, Japanese, Chinese, and
American-hyphenation and ordering vary depending on the day. She
has a BA from Columbia University, an MFA from the UW-Madison, and
was an Asian American Writers' Workshop fellow. Her short work has
appeared in Granta, The Guardian, Guernica, Apogee, and the White
Review, among other places. She has received residencies from the
Gladstone Library and Hedgebrook.
Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel The Sympathizer is a New York
Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other
honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for
Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the Andrew
Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library
Association, the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction, a
Gold Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and
the Asian/Pacific American Literature Award from the Asian/Pacific
American Librarian Association. His other books are Nothing Ever
Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National
Book Award in nonfiction) and Race and Resistance: Literature and
Politics in Asian America. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English
and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University
of Southern California. His newest book is a short story
collection, The Refugees, published in February 2017 from Grove
Press.
“Language allows for many homes, and perhaps the writers—and
readers of the anthology too—will succeed in returning home, or
finding a home, through these words.” —NPR.org
"Effectively dismantling all sorts of stereotypes, Buchanan's
anthology gives voice to notions of identity, belonging and
displacement that are much more vast, complex and textually rich
than mere geography." —Shelf Awareness
“This powerful collection will push readers." —Publishers
Weekly
“Messy, generous, and often electrifying.” —Foreword Reviews
"Readers, no matter their background, will find much to enjoy and
contemplate here." —Booklist
“Go home, whatever, whoever, however, wherever that might be, and
take this book with you.” —8asians
"Bold and devastating. . . the very definition of reclamation."
—The International Examiner
“Revolutionary for all the iterations of “home” it shows through
fiction, poetry, and memoir, sure to provoke a full range of
emotions to swoon and clutch in my chest.” —Literary Hub
“It reads like a loud urgent chorus about belonging and
rejection—being here and there and nowhere at once.” —Largehearted
Boy
“Go Home! is particularly timely now, but the quality and the
variety of the writing included means that the anthology will be
just as engrossing and important a read in years to come.” —BUST
Magazine
“A can’t-miss collection.” —Book Riot
“The notion of home has always been elusive. But as evidenced in
these stories, poems, and testaments, perhaps home is not so much a
place, but a feeling one embodies. I read this book and see my
people—see us—and feel, in our collective outsiderhood, at home.”
—Ocean Vuong, author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds
“There is a whole range of expression in this book, delving deeply
into the manifold experiences of being a perpetual alien. To be
from nowhere is the state of Asian diaspora, but there is also a
wild humor and imagination that comes from being underestimated,
rarely counted, hardly seen. Here, we begin to draw the hopeful
outlines of a collective history for those so disparate yet often
lumped together.” —Jenny Zhang, author of Sour Heart
“Go Home! is a bold, eclectic chorus that provides an invigorating
antidote to the xenophobia of our times.” —Ruth Ozeki, author of A
Tale for the Time Being
“This anthology displays the colors of the liminal—half-tones and
undertones mixing the wry, the irreverent, the outraged, the lyric,
and the longing. A composite portrait of the Asian diasporic
experience today.” —Monica Youn, author of Blackacre: Poems
"Hats off to Rowan Hisayo Buchanan for putting together such a rich
and diverse anthology. In these dark times, we need these voices
and stories more than ever." —Jessica Hagedorn, author of
Dogeaters
“In this new and daring collection, I find myself reliving moments
of heartbreak that can only come from living in between two
cultures—but also feeling profound relief in discovering I am not
alone in these private burdens and joys. Go Home! should be
celebrated, as reading it is a homecoming in itself.” —Yumi
Sakugawa, author of There Is No Right Way to Meditate: And Other
Lessons
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