McSWEENEY’S 78: THE MAKE BELIEVERS

$40.00

This is a preorder, McSweeney’s 78: The Make Believers will ship in early April 2025. All subscriptions to McSweeney’s Quarterly purchased by July 1, 2025, will include this issue.

In McSweeney’s 78: The Make Believers (guest edited by Thi Bui and Vu Tran), ten writers of the Vietnamese diaspora write from the eclectic hodgepodge that is their shared imagination of what it means to be “Vietnamese.” Packaged in a beautiful foil-stamped cigar box (with art by Bui on each and every surface), and including two booklets, one menu, and a glossary of broken Vietnamese, the work in this issue spans from highbrow to lowbrow, proper to naughty, logical to absurd, and painful to funny. Published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, its contributors work across perspectives and multiple languages. In this completely singular, nothing-else-of-its-kind anthology, these artists write (and illustrate!) from a place of collective loss and joy.

Featuring work by:
Doan Bui
Thi Bui
H’Rina DeTroy
Anna Moï
Hoài Huong Nguyen
Vaan Nguyen
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud
Bao Phi
Paul Tran
Vu Tran

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