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O
Tammy Nguyen

Signed on the occasion of Book Celebration of O with artist Tammy Nguyen and chef Mina Stone on March 5, 2023, 3PM EST
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Reading and conversation between artist Tammy Nguyen and artists' favorite chef Mina Stone of Mina's Restaurant at MoMA PS1 on collaborating on a special tasting menu inspired by O
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"O is a major addition to diasporic literature. Already an accomplished artist who has exhibited internationally, Nguyen proves herself to be an equally powerful and engaging writer. O belongs on a shelf with Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée and Sophia Al-Maria's The Girl Who Fell to Earth: A Memoir."
- John Yau


In O, artist and writer Tammy Nguyen returns to Vietnam to visit the caves of the Phong Nha Karst. This journey into the Karst’s “wind-carved teeth” resounds with the traditional songs of Nguyen’s guides, whose melodies produce the O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O that echoes through narratives woven together around it as a visual and sonic spine: the story of Nguyen’s Uncle Van, an opportunistic businessman who traded in Vietnamese porcelain vessels; her coming-of-age as a child with missing teeth, and the material and mineral histories of the veneers that eventually completed her “American Smile”; the plastic paradise of the man-made island of Forest City, a simulacrum of natural beauty kept uncannily bright and lush by the flow of global investment capital; and, behind it all, a retelling of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave that supplies what the original parable lacked: an understanding of fantasy’s role in the construction of a sublime. In O’s anti-allegory, the personal and geopolitical sit uncomfortably alongside one another. The shape of a bowl becomes the mouth of a cave. The uncanny naturalism of Nguyen’s zirconium veneers reflect Forest City’s manicured paradise. What emerges is a kaleidoscopic meditation on the play of language across scales: how it rebounds between our stories of self and the semantic regimes of global capital alike.


Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women’s Studies. Art. Hybrid.


Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022 | Softcover | 144 pgs