Little Sister Left Behind
fictional memoir
Chusma House Publications
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In this, her first novel, Samantha Lê composes a stunning requiem of childhood, loss, and transformation with the aid of memory and heart. The novel transports us to Viet Nam in 1974 where a family’s strong bonds are weakened by radical social change. We follow our heroine's father, mother, and sisters as they overcome peeping-toms, near drownings, and marital infidelities. We are with them on their trip to Bangkok, San Francisco, and finally to San Jose, California, where old familial bonds give way to the frustrations written into our American Dream”…frustrations with which all immigrants are familiar. The story culminates in the struggle between Father’s unrealized aspirations and our heroine’s fated attempt to free herself from the bonds of tradition and circumstance.
Little Sister Left Behind is a tender, unapologetic look at the Vietnamese experience over the last thirty years—both in Vietnam and in America. The troubled relationship between our heroine and her family ultimately reveals the universal human tenderness and cruelty that places in high relief the ties that bond us with one another.
Excerpt from Little Sister Left Behind [PDF]
Chapter One
Soft Cover, 224 pages, ISBN: 1-891823-11-6, Price $14.95
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My Solitude
poetry accompanied by
jazz music
Chusma House Publications
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My Solitude by Samantha Lê is a collection of poetry accompanied by jazz music. Lê's poetry is passionate and honest. Her mellifluous voice is enhanced by the music that varies from sultry to melancholy to visceral contemplation. A must have for every library.
Poems from My Solitude [mp3]
Fallen | Mary Jane | Defining Love
CD, 10 tracks | poetry accompanied by original jazz music, Price $10.00
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Corridors
a collection of poetry & prose
Chusma House Publications
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Corridors is a collection of visually refreshing and literary accomplished poems and short stories. Samantha Lê, in her debut effort, exhibits a vibrant confidence, alluding to a poetic preoccupation of the first order. The poems are self-referential but compassionate, objective but personal. The prose reminiscent of Paz's "Agulia y Sol," Dario's "Azul," and Rimbaund's "Illuminations" as a tendency to expose the poetic and mystical side of inter-subjective human experiences. Lê's poetry exhibits insight, wonder, and imagination. Lê seldom appears; but when she does, she does so in a tender, poetic voice.
Reading this collection of poems is an exercise in creative altruism. One must let go, if for just a moment, of all existential pre-occupations and walk through the "Corridors" which Samantha Lê has littered with visions, memories, and sometimes optimistic, other times melancholic, musings on life's everyday foibles. Lê's combination of maturity and youthful exuberance are remarkable.
Poems from Corridors [PDF]
Fallen | Mary Jane | Yellow Fruit Bowl | Amada Mia
Soft Cover, 102 pages, ISBN: 1-897823-03-5, Price $11.95
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