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Take My Name But Say It Slow: Essays

By Thomas Dai
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By Thomas Dai
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Finalist for the 2026 Lammy Award for Gay Memoir/Biography


A luminous memoir-in-essays exploring place, identity, and what it means to grow up queer and Asian in the American South.

Thomas Dai has never gone by his Chinese name, Nuocheng, fashioned from the Knoxville (Chinese: Nuokeshiweier) of his childhood and the Chengdu his mother called home. Seen another way, Nuocheng also contains the cheng of Chenggong: success. In one breath, his name speaks of a hometown, a geography, a half-baked ...

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