"Franny Choi's titular poem is a prose sequence documenting the apocalypses before the apocalypse, like 'There was the apocalypse of the leaving, and the having left—of my mother unsticking herself from her mother’s grave as the plane barreled down the runway.' There's something about Choi's writing that's grounding; to know there have always been terrible times, but it is never the end. This is embodied by her own personal experiences of being Asian American, and the histories of people loving one another despite it all."
--Shoshana
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