Tammy Nguyen: O

$30.00

2022

Trade Paperback
144 pp, 4.75 x 9 in
Publication Date: September 15 2022
Distribution: Inpress Books (UK), SPD

ISBN: 978-1-946433-91-6

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From a dentist’s office in San Francisco to the caves of the Phong Nha Karst, Tammy Nguyen’s O sounds the depths of personal, mineral, and geopolitical histories of Vietnam. In this many-threaded narrative, a wind that carved mountains whistles through a young girl’s teeth. The electric green of a plastic forest glints off of glazed porcelain. The shape of a bowl becomes the mouth of a cave. What emerges is a story without a center: an anti-allegory that finds its meaning in echoes and refracted light, a book stitched together by the O woven through the work as its visual spine and sonic refrain.