"Like all proper ghosts, Kupersmith’s have agendas. Many are wives, mothers, and lovers who have grievances from decades ago, jealousies and anger, and they are out for blood. Just as we do not forget the dead, the dead, it turns out, remember us. Memory doesn’t stop at the grave’s edge. Memory begins there, and then it takes on an afterlife of its own."
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News, reviews, and interviews.
Frangipani Hotel Featured by Mount Holyoke College 6/3/14
A look back at how my college experience shaped my stories.
The New York Times Book Review 5/23/14
“These stories — playful, angry, at times legitimately scary — demonstrate a subtlety of purpose that belies her youth.”
Frangipani Hotel Review in Elle Magazine 5/3/14
“In this auspicious volume, Kupersmith has reshaped and womanhandled traditional Vietnamese folktales that her grandmother told her into a wildly energetic, present-tense fusillade of short stories”
An Interview With Have Tote Will Travel 4/24/14
I talk ghosts and weigh in on the great Northern vs Southern phở debate