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“Elevator in Saigon” Disguises Itself As a Detective Novel To Tell the Story of a Rapidly Changing Country

Thuận discusses structuring the book as a dynamic vertical axis and how the Vietnamese language has the potential to become a dangerous tool

About the Author

Coco Picard is a writer, cartoonist, and curator. She is the author of the novel The Healing Circle (Red Hen Press, 2022), which won the Red Hen Press Women's Prose Prize, as well as The Chronicles of Fortune (Radiator Comics, 2017), which was nominated for a DiNKy Award. Art criticism and comics have otherwise appeared under the name Caroline Picard in Artforum, Hyperallergic, The Paris Review, and Seven Stories Press, among others. She started the Green Lantern Press in 2005, received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute, and was a Bookends Fellow at Stony Brook University.

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