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Following women and girls as they navigate everyday life in contemporary America, You Know Nothing explores the experiences of mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, and lovers whose inner worlds are animated by a tangle of emotion—from desire to rage and everything in between.Yasmina Din Madden’s characters inhabit the margins of their cultures, their diverse backgrounds united by their profound unease and the female bodies in which each resides. Madden takes us into the lives of a ravenous mother who devours her own son, a woman who sands away parts of her body, a Vietnamese mother facing her too-American children, and a fiercely protective dog owner who wanders a dog park with Satan’s master.
In this debut collection, Madden brings these characters to life in bite-size stories of surreal revelation and inquisitive long-form explorations alike, leaving newfound clarity and hypnotizing carnage in her wake.
Yasmina Din Madden is a Vietnamese American writer living in Iowa. Her story collection, You Know Nothing, is from Northwestern University Press. Her writing has been published in Electric Literature, The Idaho Review, The Fairy Tale Review, and other journals. She won the 2022 Oxford Flash Fiction Prize, and her short stories have been finalists for The Iowa Review Award in Fiction and nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. She is an Associate Professor of English at Drake University
This program will be moderated by Jennifer Wilson, the award-winning author of Running Away to Home and Water. Wilson teaches magazine, brand, and multimedia at the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at Drake University, where she advises student publications and directs the E.T. Meredith Center for Magazine and Multimedia Education. She has been a rock writer, investigative reporter, high school English teacher, Big Band radio DJ, storyteller for The Moth, and both a local newspaper and national magazine editor. Her work has appeared in Esquire, National Geographic, Gourmet, NPR’s All Things Considered, Chicago Tribune, Better Homes & Gardens, No Depression, Travel with Rick Steves, and others.
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