Heat, Flesh, and Trash, a triptych of Southeast Asian anthologies.
Flesh, the second book in the Fixi Novo triptych that began with Heat and ends with Trash, explores the engrossing ideas that are invoked by thinking about flesh, here in South-East Asia. The set of books looks to collect stories that are unique to this region, along with all the baggage – mostly real, some imagined – that goes with living in this tropical, hot, mad climate.
Flesh starts off a little slowly with Teo Yin Han’s “If You’re Happy And You Know It Clap Your Hands”, a story about love and loss, then picks up pace with “Flesh And Family In Phnom Penh” by Sokunthary Svay. She writes about going back to her roots and eventually gaining an understanding of who she is with this meditation on the traditional Cambodian beef stew, Kor Sach Koh. Svay’s prose is light yet literary, and she presses home her points without being too forceful about them, with a sort of nirvanic grace.
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