Description

Phony Home, the very first assortment of stories by poet Linh Dinh, examines the strange, dreadful, loving, and continuing intimacies between Vietnam and america. Connected by an elaborate past, the figures are influenced by a powerful and furious power. The politics of gender and race point Dinh's are his women and men discuss their way in a post-Vietnam War globe. Dinh has said of their own work, "I add a dirt or uncleanness to help make the image much healthier--to not defile something." The figures' self-esteem lies, eventually, in they encounter the turmoil in the planet and themselves how, while Phony Home goes in to the lives of minor spirits in two civilizations.