Afterparties is a short story collection by writer Anthony Veasna So, published in 2021 by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins.
[1][2] The story "Superking Son Scores Again" won the Joyce Carol Oates Award in Fiction from Syracuse University.
[3] Afterparties centers on stories of Cambodian Americans living in Northern California, both in the Central Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area.
[4][5] "Generational Differences" is also the title of the last story, which follows a survivor of the racially-motivated 1989 Stockton schoolyard shooting.
All of the stories except "Human Development" were published in magazines or literary journals prior to their release in this collection.