Truong Tran
Kaya Press
“TRUONG … this is not what happened to you.”
In gay Vietnamese Using stark prose, essays, and poems, Tran recounts stories he’s been told not to tell. Of fleeing his home and the war in Vietnam, of his childhood attempts to fit in amid people’s explicit racism. He writes of how his mother failed her U.S. citizenship test, about his initial shame surrounding his gay identity, and eventually details a series of enraging professional slights that speak to racial bias in academia. All the while he implores readers to see him, believe him.
