Yearly Archives: 2024

It’s true, you can’t block the path of a bulldozer. My father said it’s because a bulldozer doesn’t have feelings.

A curse crashed into the town’s shores.

The running thread throughout the selected works as addressing boundaries and borders, what’s considered in and out of a state, the inner and outer, and the private and public spheres of the social, economic, and political.

Ban đầu tôi định viết một câu chuyện chàng nàng.

Let's imagine this is a literary trial in which I was accused of the worst crime for a writer in my country—writing something worth writing about.

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Christina Vo’s debut memoir, The Veil Between Two Worlds: A Memoir of Silence, Loss, and Finding Home, is akin to a spiritual awakening after a long slumber, a salve to a throbbing, persistent wound. The book centers around Vo’s mid-life experience and family trauma, expanding and contracting between the past and present, the physical and spiritual, the mental and emotional. It explores questions of How did I get here? Why can’t I let go of these past wounds? What is my purpose in life?

Kimberly Nguyen’s words are a punch in the gut, an inspiration, and an evocation of nostalgia, grief, pain, and hope—all at once. Her poems navigate the complexities of life through many lenses: history of the war torn homeland, the journey to reclaiming and preserving the mother language, growing up as chi hai, the “eldest daughter of an eldest daughter of an eldest daughter,” and complicated family relationships. The collection does not leave any topic untouched, and the reader will turn the pages with their heart in their throat.

The uncomfortable feelings and experiences that we face as the children of Vietnamese refugees are encapsulated in Owner of a Lonely Heart, a memoir lodged in Beth Nguyen’s experience as a Vietnamese American. A sense of finality spans her book, accenting events like when our parents left Vietnam, after which some of us forgot our roots and those left behind in Vietnam.

Giữa Hai Giòng Sông/Between Two Rivers/Entre deux rivières is the first retrospective of An-My Lê’s three-decade career by a major American museum.