That’s Absurd: Linh Dinh's Love Like Hate and Cihan Kaan's Halal Pork and Other Stories October 6, 2010

Linh Dinh and Cihan Kaan create landscapes where Coney Island meets Mars, post-war Saigon backdrops lovelorn characters, and rich boys pay to be Muslim for a day. In Love Like Hate, Linh Dinh, who writer Ed Park calls "one of the secret masters of short fiction," uses his deadpan humor to explore family dysfunction and Saigon in the last half of the 20th century. In Halal Pork and Other Stories,Kaan spins five urban Sufi tales in the swirling graffiti of Brooklyn, creating an avant-garde, post-9/11 world from the perspective of a young Muslim New Yorker. As Moustafa Bayoumi says about this debut: "What do you mean you’d never even thought about reading American Tatar Turkish Russian Muslim immigrant Brooklyn post-colonial sci-fi punk-rock short fiction before?"

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