The Italy LettersThe Italy Letters

A mesmerizing epistolary tale about a young queer Vietnamese American woman writer who is currently living in Las Vegas watching her mother die. It is the tale of a doomed sensual queer love affair set against the backdrop of Las Vegas' gritty underbelly. This brilliant and unclassifiable work of fiction takes the form of a series of letters written by the unnamed narrator to her lover in Italy, part of a stream-of-consciousness narrative that is by turns poignant, bawdy, funny, and disturbing, and often beautifully poetic.--