A01=Yasmina Din Madden
Asian American
Author_Yasmina Din Madden
beauty
biracial
Category=FBA
Category=FMM
Category=FYB
contemporary fiction
contemporary short fiction
culture
cycles
dating
daughter
daughters
desire
dog
education
eq_anthologies-novellas-short-stories
eq_bestseller
eq_fantasy
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_modern-contemporary
eq_new_release
eq_nobargain
family
family dynamics
female bodies
female body
female desire
female rage
flash fiction
friendship
frustration
gender
gender dynamics
gender expectations
gender inequality
girlhood
girls
hunger
immigrants
immigration
love
Mexico
Midwest
Midwestern
mother
motherhood
mothering
mothers
mothers and daughters
Nevada
Paris
POV
race
racial identity
rage
relationships
school
sex
shame
short fiction
Short stories
stories
student
suburban
surreality
teacher
time
Vietnam
Vietnamese
Vietnamese American
womanhood
women
women and girls
youth
Product details
- ISBN 9780810149663
- Weight: 227g
- Dimensions: 127 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2026
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Questioning the roles of women's bodies and the emotions that drive them in Madden's debut story collection
Following women and girls as they navigate everyday life in contemporary America, You Know Nothing explores the experiences of mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, and lovers whose inner worlds are animated by a tangle of emotion - from desire to rage and everything in between. Yasmina Din Madden's characters inhabit the margins of their cultures, their diverse backgrounds united by their profound unease and the female bodies in which each resides. Madden takes us into the lives of a ravenous mother who devours her own son, a woman who sands away parts of her body, a Vietnamese mother facing her too-American children, and a fiercely protective dog owner who wanders a dog park with Satan's master. In this debut collection, Madden brings these characters to life in bite-size stories of surreal revelation and inquisitive long-form explorations alike, leaving newfound clarity and hypnotizing carnage in her wake.
Following women and girls as they navigate everyday life in contemporary America, You Know Nothing explores the experiences of mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, and lovers whose inner worlds are animated by a tangle of emotion - from desire to rage and everything in between. Yasmina Din Madden's characters inhabit the margins of their cultures, their diverse backgrounds united by their profound unease and the female bodies in which each resides. Madden takes us into the lives of a ravenous mother who devours her own son, a woman who sands away parts of her body, a Vietnamese mother facing her too-American children, and a fiercely protective dog owner who wanders a dog park with Satan's master. In this debut collection, Madden brings these characters to life in bite-size stories of surreal revelation and inquisitive long-form explorations alike, leaving newfound clarity and hypnotizing carnage in her wake.
Yasmina Din Madden is a Vietnamese American writer whose fiction and nonfiction have been published in Electric Literature, The Idaho Review, The Fairy Tale Review, and other journals. She is the winner of the 2022 Oxford Flash Prize, and she teaches creative writing and literature at Drake University.
