Root fractures : poems / Diana Khoi Nguyen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nguyen, Diana Khoi, 1985- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Poetry.

Physical Description:

117 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Scribner trade paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, 2024.

Summary:

"National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen's second poetry collection, a haunting of a family's past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers and daughters across generations. In Root Fractures, Diana Khoi Nguyen excavates the moments of rupture in a family: a mother who was forced underground after the Fall of Saigon, a father who engineered a new life in California as an immigrant, a brother who cut himself out of every family picture before cutting himself out of their lives entirely. And as new generations of the family come of age, opportunities to begin anew blend with visitations from the past. Through poems of disarming honesty and personal risk, Nguyen examines what takes root after a disaster and how we can make a story out of the broken pieces of our lives"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Nguyen, Diana Khoi, 1985- Root fractures.

ISBN:

9781668031308

1668031302

OCLC:

1384414794