The Bender Files: A Fictional Memoir by Æ Trinh
18 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese American
Excessive behavior has always provided seemingly unlimited literary fodder, but few writers have succeeded in creating great books from such source material. Alas, while Trinh's debut effort has a few brow-raising hairpin page-turns, her characters' bender-binges (drinking, drugs, bad relationships) soon grow too tedious to sustain a reader's interest. Eydie...