Inspired by the storytelling of Jorge Luis Borges,adventure and truth await you in "A Perfect Day".A Rich StoryDetails in every corner and unique game systems express the inspired collective experience of Chinese youth at the turn of the century.Complex Characters"A Perfect Day" honors and affirms the legacy of visual novels. is available now! It contains the content of the "0th" Day, brings you to the last day in 1999, and allow you to experience the day as a Chinese kid names Liang Chen.A New Way To PlayExplore a winding narrative, a puzzle bound by the shackles of time, memories built into a serpentine labyrinth. Stranger in the Pen is a meditative look at nationality, home, and how we collectively treat strangers.ATTENTION: The game only support simplified Chinese now, and we will support English and more languages in the near future.A Perfect Day: 1 Day Ver. "In spare, moving prose, Mohamed Asem takes us through a suspenseful journey of airport immigration detention while painting an endearing and sometimes sad portrait of a life between cultures. Alia Malek, author of The Home That Was Our Country: A memoir of Syria His book is an intimate examination of being in-between-whether parents, countries, identities, callings-a condition that many find themselves in possession of in today's world." "Asem wryly shows us the modern-day purgatory that often awaits those trying to cross borders who are cursed with a passport or a religion or a race or an ethnicity that is unwanted. Pauls Toutonghi, author of Evel Kneivel Days "If only there were more books like this-then maybe our politics wouldn't be as thoughtless." Mohamed Asem’s interview on OPB’s Think Out Loud radio program (Oct 18, 2018) The Portland Mercury, Aug 29, 2018, Fall Arts Guide “Mohamed Asem's memoir Stranger in the Pen is much more than the story of his airport detention, this important book is a treatise on identity and culture.” "…a pensive reflection on identity and belonging." Praise for Mohamed Asem and Stranger in the Pen: Stranger in the Pen examines the burden of being disconnected from one's homeland, unpacks the emotional toll of racial profiling, and illuminates the quietly surprising ways in which grief can change one's life. He spent his twenties dutifully trying to follow the blueprint for manhood back home in the Middle East, only to cast it all aside after his mother's early death. What series of events has led to this moment? As a teenager, he was stranded in Paris with his mother during the first Gulf War, while his father remained in Kuwait. In an elegantly digressive, self-interrogative style, Asem describes the boredom and uncertainty of confinement, and how this specific kind of helplessness leads, inevitably, to a self-reckoning. July, 2016: Three days after the terror attack on Bastille Day, Mohamed Asem is detained overnight by British immigration officials without cause. Until supplies run out, all books include a limited edition letterpressed bookmark by Aaron Robert Miller, Perfect Day’s cover designer.
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