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Anthony Veasna So, promising young Bay Area author, is remembered for his wit and talent Dorany Pineda © (Alex Torres) Anthony Veasna So, writer of the forthcoming story collection "Afterparties," died last week in San Francisco. He was 28. (Alex Torres) A week after Anthony Veasna So, an emerging author on the cusp of success, died unexpectedly at age 28, a far-flung but tightknit literary community is in shock and mourning over what might have been. So died Dec. 8 in San Francisco, according to his partner, Alex Torres. No cause of death was given. His highly anticipated ...

Print A week after Anthony Veasna So, an emerging author on the cusp of success, died unexpectedly at age 28, a far-flung but tightknit literary community is in shock and mourning over what might have been. So died Dec. 8 in San Francisco, according to his partner, Alex Torres. No cause of death was given. His highly anticipated short story collection, “Afterparties,” to be published in August by Ecco Press, offers a series of portraits of Cambodian Americans grappling with the inherited trauma of the genocide that their parents fled. “I was completely dazzled by it,” said Helen Atsma...