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Angie Sijun Lou

Angie Sijun Lou is a Kundiman fellow and a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at UC Santa Cruz.

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Memory Fragments in Rachel Khong’s ‘Goodbye, Vitamin’

The Los Angeles author’s use of white space in the California Book Club’s December selection expands readers’ understanding of a daughter’s experiences of providing care and inspires writer Angie Sijun Lou.

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Echoes of ‘I Hotel’

The concerns and difficulties of Asian American activists between 1968 and 1977 in Karen Tei Yamashita’s novel, the March selection of the California Book Club, continue to resonate in the present day.