In Oculus, Sally Wen Mao confronts the many roles and representations that women of color are made to endure in order to survive a culture that seeks to consume them. Emily Skaja’s Brute arises, brave and furious, from the dissolution of a relationship, showing how such endings necessitate self-discovery and reinvention. Yanyi considers how to speak with multiple identities through trauma, transition, and ordinary life in The Year of Blue Water.

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