Description
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of short stories. This book features stories that cover a geography that spans hemispheres, and an emotional landscape that is wider still: life and death, desire and repulsion, freedom and humiliation, the body and the spirit.
Trade Review"A collection of startling and unsettling short stories that are mostly set in the landscape of contemporary California. Some of Leong's rich and evocative stories confront us with the horror of what might be played for cheap exoticism in less skillful hands..Other stories are more restrained, but Leong always shows us how memory and identity persist even in the melting pot of America..his acute powers of observation and his poet's gift for capturing the experience of transcendence are given full expression in the pages of Phoenix Eyes."
* Los Angeles Times *
"Leong’s collection coalesces into a telling amalgamation of stories of struggle and survival, of displaced persons seeking accommodation through desire and new identification."
* The Seattle Times *
"Poet, documentary producer, activist, editor, Russell Leong has presented important issues for Asian America. In this first volume of stories, he adopts the voices of various ethnicities . . . and sexualities to portray a side of that life usually kept from view. . . . The stories assume that the fiction writer should bring the reader into unfamiliar worlds and ways of responding to them. This Leong’s stories do so well."
* World Literature Today *
Table of ContentsLeaving
1) Bodhi Leaves
2) Geography One
3) Runaways
4) Daughers
5) Sons
Samsara
6) A Yin and Her Man
7) Hemispheres
8) Camouflage
9) Eclipse
10) Samsara
Pardise
11) The Western Paradise of Eddie Bin
12) Phoenix Eyes
13) No Bruce Lee
14) Where do People Live Who Never Die?
Acknowledgments
