She Will Last as Long as Stones

Weaving together the matter of geology, migration, and computation, kathy wu’s debut book She Will Last as Long as Stones mines data from the United States Geological Survey, pairing it with (mis)translations of conversations with the author’s mother, narratives of racialized and gendered labor, and elegies on end-of-life care. Through text, photo-collage, and diagrammatic circuitry, wu mobilizes language toward the edges of things, where glitch and failure meet grief, outpour. kathy wu's She Will Last as Long as Stones is the 2024 Wendy's Subway Open Reading Period Book Prize winner, and was selected by guest judge Bhanu Kapil.