If I Were the Ocean, I'd Carry You Home

Hsu, Pete

If I Were the Ocean, I'd Carry You Home

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Pete Hsu is a Taiwanese American writer based in Pasadena, CA. He is the author of the experimental chapbook, There is a Man (Tolsun Books). His work has also been featured in several journals and anthologies, including Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins, F(r)iction, The Los Angeles Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books. He was a 2017 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow as well as the 2017 PEN in the Community Writer in Residence.
2022
Published by: Red Hen Press

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Full of warmth, terror, and underhanded humor, If I Were the Ocean, I’d Carry You Home, Pete Hsu’s debut story collection, captures the essence of surviving in a life set adrift. Children and young people navigate a world where the presence of violence and death rear themselves in everyday places: Vegas casinos, birthday parties, church services, and sunny days at the beach. Each story is a meditation on living in a world not made for us—the pervasive fear, the adaptations, the unexpected longings. A gripping and energetic debut, Hsu’s writing beats with the naked rhythms of an unsettled human heart.

ASIAN-AMERICAN STORIES focused on the lives of second and third-generation Americans coping with grief, loss, and masculinity through the lens of children and adult protagonist
A MISHMASH OF SHORT/LINKED STORIESexploring sexual identity and queer relationships
WINNER of the Red Hen Press Fiction Award
FOR FANS of Birds of Paradise Lost by Andrew Lam and The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa