H. Tam

Jan 16, 2025 | publicbooks.org | H. Tam |Charlotte Rosen

Anthony Veasna So’s Afterparties is a book of failures. Not a failed book: Its nine short stories dazzle and move. The failures are of the economic, social, and historical kind. While the book engages with the Khmer Rouge genocide that between 1975 and 1979 killed an estimated 1.7 million people (21–25 percent of Cambodia’s population), So is not interested in replay, repair, or redress.