“orbit” by Ethos Books: the gravity and pull of insignificant destinies
about 61 months ago (04/03/2019)
"orbit" by Ethos Books: the gravity and pull of insignificant destinies | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles April 3, 2019 By Nah Dominic (1550 words, six-minute read) “I reached for those insignificant destinies again; the smallest collision of time and incident that throws life out of orbit” – “Stillborn”, Khin Chan Myae Maung A new series by Ethos Books titled “orbit” has launched – a literary space station intended for works of writing that can hold their own despite not meeting the conventions of a full-length publication. The first three titles under this series appear pocket-sized in a bundle like a chapbook series, but this lightness belies the gravity and pull of the lives and stories observed between the covers. Shaped from personal experience, communal observations and inherited tales of suffering, these “insignificant destinies” within and across disparate worlds present themselves as three pathways into the lives of others.