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Nguyen, Bich Minh.
Novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Nguyen, Bich Minh.
Nguyen, Bich Minh.
Novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Immigrants -- Michigan -- Biography.
Vietnamese Americans -- Michigan -- Biography.
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Owner of a lonely heart : a memoir / Beth Nguyen.
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Nguyen, Bich Minh.
Scribner, 2023.
Call #:
977
.456
N576o
Subjects
Nguyen, Bich Minh.
Novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Immigrants -- Michigan -- Biography.
Vietnamese Americans -- Michigan -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781982196349 (pbk.)
Edition:
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Description:
ix, 237 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"“My relationship with the word ‘refugee’ has paralleled my relationship with the word ‘mother,’” novelist Nguyen (Pioneer Girl) writes in her ruminative memoir. “For much of my life, I felt uncomfortable with both.” At the end of the Vietnam War, Nguyen’s father fled Saigon with his two young daughters for the U.S.; Nguyen’s mother, unable to access the part of Saigon where Nguyen and her father and sister were living, stayed behind. Since then, Nguyen has spent less than 24 hours in her mother’s presence. In plainspoken prose, she grapples with what she and her mother owe each other in terms of time and emotional investment (“I never know how to refer to the woman who gave birth to me”), and recounts the time when her mother chose to go to a casino instead of meeting her one-year-old grandson for the first time. “Sounds bad,” Nguyen says, but “I couldn’t blame her for wanting to try her luck elsewhere.” The portrait that emerges of this mother-daughter relationship is fascinating yet somewhat blurry, as Nguyen works through what little information she has about her mother on the page. She’s at her sharpest in several essaylike chapters that turn elsewhere, offering observations about race and class born of her immigrant experience. This shines as a multilayered look at the ways absence can shape one’s sense of self."--Publishers Weekly.
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