# Nothing Follows - Hardcover

by **Lan P. Duong** (Author)

The title of this debut collection, _Nothing Follows_, is reappropriated from a government document  
establishing the beginning of a refugee family's time in the United States. At  
every coordinate of their lives, the refugee family provides affidavits,  
letters, and reams of paperwork as they work to beseech those in power to grant  
them "family reunification" visas for those they had to leave behind in 1975  
after the fall of Saigon.

_Nothing Follows_  
draws from the genres of memoir and poetry. Written from a young girl's  
perspective, the center of this world is a military father, an absent mother,  
sisters who come and go, broken brothers, and friends she meets in San José.

With each place the book travels through--from Butler,  
Pennsylvania, to San José, California--we see that racism, objectification, and  
sexual violence permeate the realities of the narrator and those close to her.  
In marking the journey, Lan Duong recreates the portraits of the girl's friends  
and family and maps out refugee girlhoods.

Spiked with violence, pleasure, and longing,  
these refuges are questionable sanctuaries for those refugee girls who have  
grown up during the 1980s in the aftermath of war.

**Number of Pages:** 96

**Dimensions:** 0.39 x 8.9 x 5.75 IN

**Publication Date:** April 05, 2023

## Details

- **Price:** 21.95 USD
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