Monthly Archives: July, 2022

In the Diaspora: July 2022

News from Việt Nam►Remains of 200,000 Vietnam War soldiers still missing, 300,000 unidentified►Vietnam among top destinations for American retirees►Vietnam sees Jan-July trade surplus at...

Brothers and Ghosts

We were ready to be anything—except who we were. There was no place for us in nineties Germany.

What I’d Leave Behind

My mom used to remind me of a Vietnamese folktale when I was a little girl, for those times I wasn’t perfectly obedient. “You should be careful,” my mom would say. “The gods could turn you into a pineapple.”

on being chị hai ~ a poem by Kimberly Nguyễn

i am the eldest daughter of an eldest daughter of an eldest daughter