The Mute Kids - by Lily Hoàng (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The micro-tales collected here were generated from sentences or stanzas that were donated by other writers, but this is not a collaborative project. After the original writer donated their words, they had no additional input or participation. The author thanks all these generous and beautiful writers for their gracious trust in this project.

Review Quotes

The Mute Kids deftly choreographs the donated stanzas and phrases of an all-star ensemble into its own unearthly mis en scene. The morals of these grim, inverted tales get lost in clouds and forests, and arrive, audaciously and inescapably, at the end of a great and terrible love. Hoang's tales are exact, buoyant, and bloodthirsty. Her practice, like her prose, is boundlessly innovative.

Jessica Alexander

Lily Hoang's The Mute Kids overcomes the initial silence implied by its title through its chitonsic nature, perceptiveness, and minimalism. 1000 eyes seem to grow out of Hoang's vast and clever imagination-taking all her lexical donations to a mythological, feral space only those không có miệng có thể nói được.

Vi Khi Nao, author of The Italian Letters