pstrongA Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club Pick!strongppstrongNamed a Best Book of Summer by emWall Street Journal em Thrillist emVogue em Lit Hub Refinery29 emNew York Observer em The Daily Beast emTime em BuzzFeed emEntertainment Weekly emstrongppstrongA vibrant story collection about Cambodian-American life--immersive and comic, yet unsparing--that offers profound insight into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communitiesstrongppSeamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sharp emotional depth, emAfterpartiesem offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California, they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide and grapple with the complexities of race, sexuality, friendship, and family.ppA high school badminton coach and failing grocery store owner tries to relive his glory days by beating a rising star teenage pl