ARGONAUT BOOKS

Through these irreverent yet vulnerable essays Pyae takes on what it means to be Myanmar on her own terms rather than those of the colonizer, exploring romantic relationships whose futures are determined by different passports, switching accents in American taxis, the patriarchal Myanmar concept of hpone which governs how laundry is done, swimming as refuge from mental illness, pleasure and shame around eating rice, and baking in a kitchen far from white America's imagination. With intimate and funny prose, Pyae shows how the truth of identity may be found not in stability, but in its glorious...Read More