Writing nonfiction, making ceramics; support from @yaddotoday, @peripluscollect, @tin_house & @breadloafwriter. Winner of the 2023 Georgia Review Prose Prize.
The first essay I ever wrote is now out in @EcotoneMagazine! I wrote about my language loss, the seemingly simple trades we made for assimilation. Linguists have long studied the 3 stages of first-language attrition, and I posit a 4th.
https://t.co/Jm5zPM5lFu
We talked about collectivism vs. individualism in the AAPI community, communication between generations of men, and Randy’s research process + inspirations.
Also I love working with @the_rumpus. Thanks to Annelies Zijderveld and Janet Rodriguez for the edits and support!
Always a delight to read a book that depicts Southeast Asian families with idiosyncratic fullness—from a place of personal truth. I interviewed @randyribay about his recent novel, Everything We Never Had, which spans four generations of Filipino-American men.
❤️🩷💜💔
Once, while peeling string beans, I asked Mom, “Do you dream in English or in Vietnamese?”
It took her a moment. She blinked a few times and responded, “I don’t know actually.”
The first essay I ever wrote is now out in @EcotoneMagazine! I wrote about my language loss, the seemingly simple trades we made for assimilation. Linguists have long studied the 3 stages of first-language attrition, and I posit a 4th.
https://t.co/Jm5zPM5lFu
“Linguists do not consider the silence between kin—the loss of connection when in shared moments, for lack of understanding, we default to the comfortable and easy: leaving things unsaid.”
Read @trubrian’s essay in @EcotoneMagazine, free for a few more days!
@GraceLP Thanks Grace 🥺
Though our works derive from difficult circumstances, it is meaningful to get to be in conversation and in community with one another.
@andymintan@Jezebel so many precious, powerful moments — the trembling at the thought of dreams achieved, the carefulness of breathing while painting, the success of the pinky French tip 🤧