Introduction : imagining queer Asian North American lives -- Tactical diversions : toward queer Asian North American formalisms -- Narrative endurance : queer Asian North American storytellers, survival plots and inscrutable belongings -- Inscrutable belongings in pathology : infectious genealogies in Alexander Chee's Edinburgh -- Inscrutable belongings in cinema : filmic lineages in Noël Alumit's Letters to Montgomery Clift -- Inscrutable belongings in hunting : interracial surrogacies in Nina Revoyr's Wingshooters -- Inscrutable belongings in bondage : degenerate descendants in Lydia Kwa's Pulse.