Timber & Lua: Stories, Lily Hoàng & Vi Khi Nào
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An innovative short story collection that fuses English, Vietnamese, and Vietlish to explore love, loss, and identity across generations—an electrifying collaboration between Lily Hoàng and Vi Khi Nào.
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Timber and Lụa: Stories
by Lily Hoàng and Vi Khi Nào
Paperback – November 4, 2025
A luminous, genre-defying collection that blends language, memory, and myth to reimagine what it means to be Vietnamese-American.
Award-winning authors Lily Hoàng (A Bestiary) and Vi Khi Nào (Fish in Exile) join forces in this inventive collaboration, where the boundaries between English, Vietnamese, and Vietlish dissolve into something wholly new. Across ten stories, Timber and Lụa explores love, loss, and longing through experimental forms that range from contemporary realism to speculative fiction and surreal fairy tales.
The collection moves fluidly between generations and worlds—rural villages and digital landscapes, family kitchens and cosmic dreamscapes—revealing how the Vietnamese diaspora continues to evolve through language and imagination. Hoàng and Nào write with tenderness and wit, balancing grief with absurdity, and myth with memory.
Released on the fiftieth anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, Timber and Lụa stands as both an homage to history and a bold act of artistic reinvention. It is a celebration of hybridity, resilience, and the fierce beauty of storytelling across cultures.
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