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Siren Queen
by Nghi Vo
Siren Queen is a fairytale coming of age story recounting the life of a young Luli Wei, a lesbian, Chinese-American actress navigating a fantastical rendering of the golden age of Hollywood. Metaphor and reality blended together so seamlessly, I often found myself rereading the last paragraph or flipping to the previous page. This novel utilizes fantasy as an allegory for the complex emotions and experiences of a queer, minority woman struggling for purpose, visibility and connection in an industry not built for people like her. Siren Queen seems to ask, what makes a monster?
“What's so great about being seen?" Tara demanded. "What's so important about that?"
She might have had the words for it, but I didn't. They locked up in my throat, about being invisible, about being alien and foreign and strange even in the place where I was born, and about the immortality that wove through my parents' lives but ultimately would fail them. Their immortality belonged to other people, and I hated that.
“What's so great about being seen?" Tara demanded. "What's so important about that?"
She might have had the words for it, but I didn't. They locked up in my throat, about being invisible, about being alien and foreign and strange even in the place where I was born, and about the immortality that wove through my parents' lives but ultimately would fail them. Their immortality belonged to other people, and I hated that.