Category: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Witness and Knowledge: Reading Victoria Chang’s Trees” by Anna Nguyen Also read Anna Nguyen’s reivew ofIldikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend 🌻 Victoria Chang. The Trees Witness Everything, Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 125…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Now and Now and Now and Now: Abyssal Form in Yiyun Li’s Things in Nature Merely Grow” by Ronny Chan Yiyun Li. Things in Nature Merely Grow, Farrar, Straus and…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Moshin Hamid’s Moth Smoke: What Binds and What Breaks Us” by Abhinav Tulachan Moshin Hamid, Moth Smoke, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. 256 pgs. I was, much to my own…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Between Adaptation and Escapism: Navigating Entrapment in Ling Ma’s Severance” by Hilda Wong Ling Ma, Severance, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. 304 pgs. In an era defined by burnout and quiet…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Fiction as Control: Yiyun Li’s Exacting The Book of Goose” by Zalman S. Davis Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Yiyun Li. Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Nathan Go, Forgiving Imelda Marcos, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. 240 pgs. Nathan Go’s novel Forgiving Imelda Marcos comes at a kind of global cultural moment for things Filipino and…
![[REVIEW] “Witness and Knowledge: Reading Victoria Chang’s Trees” by Anna Nguyen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/victoria-chang-cha.png)
![[REVIEW] “Now and Now and Now and Now: Abyssal Form in Yiyun Li’s 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑀𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑜𝑤” by Ronny Chan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/things-in-nature-merely-grow-by-yiyun-li-farrar-straus-and-giroux-2025.jpg)
![[REVIEW] “Moshin Hamid’s 𝑀𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑆𝑚𝑜𝑘𝑒: What Binds and What Breaks Us” by Abhinav Tulachan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/moth-smoke-moshin-hamid.jpg)
![[REVIEW] “Between Adaptation and Escapism: Navigating Entrapment in Ling Ma’s 𝑆𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒” by Hilda Wong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ling-ma-severance2.jpg)
![[REVIEW] “Fiction as Control: Yiyun Li’s Exacting 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑒” by Zalman S. Davis](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/yiyun-li-the-book-of-goose-farrar-straus-and-giroux.jpg)
![[REVIEW] “One Father’s Regret: Nathan Go’s 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐼𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑑𝑎 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐𝑜𝑠” by Noelle Q. de Jesus](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/forgiving-imelda-marcos-1.jpg)