About this ebook
Over ten years, this story traces a descent—not of freedom, but of choices made in locked rooms and uniforms colored by fate. It moves restlessly between instruction and execution, clarity and chaos, inviting you into an ornate cage of silent selections and unnamed monsters.
Through cooking lessons, market haggles, silent debts, and simmering tensions, characters like Le Wall, Frequency Record, and Thuy Nhi navigate a society where every word, every dish, every transaction is layered with unspoken rules and invisible scripts.
Perfect for language learners and literary readers alike, this dual-language experiment blurs the line between textbook and tale—a chilling, immersive experience where each page reminds you:
The monsters are rarely the ones we are taught to fear.
Step into this arena. May you find your way back out.
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About the author
NGUYEN THI NGUYET is a bilingual writer and storyteller whose work lives in the spaces between languages, cultures, and states of being. With a background spanning literature, linguistics, and visual art, she crafts narratives that explore power, memory, and identity under systems of control.
Her writing is deeply influenced by the haunting traditions of folktales and gothic bureaucracy, as well as the chilling realities of selection and survival. When not writing, she works across book design and visual art, creating immersive worlds that challenge and disorient.
Everyday English is her debut dual-language novel—a project born from the fracture between English and German, and the lived experience of navigating divided worlds.
She continues to write and create from the silence between echoes.
