Lily Hoang

This debut novel begins with a butterfly flapping its wings and weaves through genres picking up stories while following the curve of a parabola. Smart, challenging, sad, and kind, by the end of Parabola you will have moved through every emotion, and you will end up right where you began, with that simple ... (more)act of a butterfly flapping its wings.

Lily Hoang is a San Antonio native. She is currently a Visiting Asst. Professor in English and Women's Studies at Saint Mary’s College in South Bend, Indiana.

Reading + Signing with Lily Hoang, author of Parabola
“What streams through the consciousness of a first-generation American daughter of Vietnamese immigrants? Her perspective, woven in autobiography and fantasy, expresses the deep conflict between life's realities weighed against expectations ... (more)- both internal and external. The author superimposes her story over a mix of mathematics, music, and myth . She addresses our myths of collective memory and aspiration in a style reminiscent of a good Kurt Vonnegut read, with a decidedly feminist flavor.”

Lily Hoang is a native of San Antonio. She currently live in South Bend, Indiana, where she is a Visiting Asst. Professor in English and Women's Studies at Saint Mary's College.

Reception to follow.