At the center of it is Jade Nguyen, an angry but soft-hearted teen who’s only trying to survive as her parents did. This is a story about family and all the ways it can be haunted: missing pieces in your history, unsaid conversations, and the persistent hunger to find a place you can truly call home. My Final Girl training didn’t prep me for this because so few people like me are shown to make it until the end. I was afraid I would never be enough, that my family would never really know me or me, them. I was anxious about coming out as bisexual. I was scared of visiting Vietnam and being told that I don’t belong. I thought I’d be prepared to face the scariest monsters but when I sat down to write this book, I realized that my biggest fear came in a different form. I started watching horror movies way too young and gained a number of weird, morbid interests over the years. I have been training to be a Final Girl all my life.
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