Kelsey Street Press, paperback
Publication Date: June 10, 2026
Publisher Marketing: A new Edition with Introduction by Bhanu Kapil. not so, sea is an experimental text that fuses the speaker's transcontinental and matrilineal lines with the discourses of the speaker's own reproductive body alongside the bodies of her daughters. The manuscript is organized through a series of missives that work to weave together the themes of: the mother-daughter dyad, the landscape of the Philippines, memory, and the difficulty of fixing immigrant bodies in a secure and linear narrative.