With Dark Humor, Afterparties Captures California Through a Cambodian American Lens
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A mother reliving a school shooting for the sake of her young son. A washed-up high school badminton star stuck running his father's grocery store. A young teacher disenchanted by his romantic prospects and the privileged high schoolers he teaches to be "socially conscious." Each of these characters is Cambodian-American, from the same, unnamed central California city, and each struggles down intersecting plot arcs in Anthony Veasna So's debut story collection,