“She Is A Haunting” by Trang Thanh Tran

Written By Asha Sundararaman
She Is A Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran book cover: Vietnamese-American teen girl's face, crying, with flowers on the edges of her mouth and leaves in her hair
 

In "She Is a Haunting" a Vietnamese American teen wards off the ghosts of colonialism and more

We've talked before in this newsletter about the destruction colonialism wreaked on the Global South, and the scars it left. In Trang Thanh Tran's debut "She Is A Haunting" those scars take shape in the form of a colonial house, possessed by ghosts.

Asha Sundararaman
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