Ordinary Fruit (Novel), Ithaca, NY
Ordinary Fruit inverts the American Dream to tell the story of a mother and daughter who cannot stop running away from each other.
“Through this novel I ask how family can serve as a repository for memory, what is worth holding on to, and why the past refuses to be so easily cast aside.”
Maz Do is an Indonesian-Vietnamese-American writer living and working in New York. In 2023 she placed runner-up for the inaugural Stephen Dixon Prize and her fiction was published in McSweeney’s Quarterly Review. Her stories have also appeared or are forthcoming in diaCRITICS, jellyfish review and Aster(ix) Magazine. She is a 2021 Tin House alumnus, a 2022 Asian Women Writers’ Mentee and an MFA student in fiction at Cornell University. She is also the recipient of the Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship for the 2023 summer and 23-24 academic year.
Visit Maz’s website: www.mazdowrites.com
Twitter: @_mazdo
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