The Italy Letters

A Ms Magazine The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024
A New York Magazine’s Vulture Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer
A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of Summer 2024
A BookRiot Best LGBT Book
An Autostraddle Most Anticipated Queer Novel of the Summer 2024

“Vi Khi Nao’s work crosses mediums — poetry, film, and visual art, to name a few — and her intensely lyrical latest novel has a similar range, putting the erotic side by side with political and personal history.” - New York Magazine’s Vulture

“Queer, sensual, ‘literary fantasia.’” - Ms Magazine

“Explodes with feeling.” – Publisher’s Weekly

“For years, Vi Khi Nao has been one of the most interesting and bewitching writers of an English sentence. With this book she expresses all the loneliness and longing and absurdity of what it’s been like to live out this past decade in America, in sentences you want to lift off the page, put in your mouth, and swallow down whole.” —Madeleine Watts, author of The Inland Sea

PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS BOOKS:

“Vi Khi Nao’s fictional language is full of magical slippages … an esoteric sadness seeps up through surface deadpan and pizzazz.” —Jonathan Lethem

“An unstoppable genius.” —Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted

“Prose as sharp and strange as a buried blade.” —Alex McElroy, author of The Atmospherians

“Vi Khi Nao [creates] universe at once both recognizabe and fantastical, poetical and political.” —Adriana E. Ramírez, author of Dead Boys

Vi Khi Nao was born in Long Khanh, Vietnam, and immigrated to the United States at a young age. Her work includes poetry, fiction, film, and cross-genre collaboration, and has been featured in periodicals such as Conjunctions, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicago Review, Glimmer Train, the Bafller, and McSweeney’s, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology. A former Black Mountain Institute fellow, she lives in Iowa City.

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