ARGONAUT BOOKS

An operatic, polyphonic novel that follows Emi and Lua, as they grapple with Vietnamese intergenerational stories across genocide, psychosis, and the resistance that follows. Reviews In the opening to Sophia Terazawa's Tetra Nova, an elephant knocks the narrator unconscious. He awakens to a soft skull. Ears on top of his head. The disappearance of his fingers and ankles. All anatomy rearranged. The narrator is a stuffed plush Panda. He falls back asleep, then awakens again: now she's a human girl. No one warns you about this shape-shifting. Like the body of its stuffed plush...Read More