In “Brothers and Ghosts,” a Vietnamese Diaspora Family Cannot Escape Their Generational Wounds

At the beginning of Khuê Phạm’s debut novel Brothers and Ghosts, translated by Charles Hawley and Daryl Lindsey, the narrator makes a confession: “I don’t know how to pronounce my own name.” It’s not something you hear often and something unimaginable for many. But for Kiều, the young Vietnamese German writer at the center of […] The post In “Brothers and Ghosts,” a Vietnamese Diaspora Family Cannot Escape Their Generational Wounds appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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A Secret Reverberates Across Four Generations of an East African Indian Family

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Black America, White violence and generations of unhealed wounds

In visceral essays, Michael Eric Dyson explains the unrest after George Floyd’s killing. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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In Zaina Arafat’s ‘You Exist Too Much,’ a child of the Palestinian diaspora tries to heal the psychic wounds passed down by her mother

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How an Episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation Wound Up in a Memoir About Domestic Abuse

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English translations of Armenian memoirs share diaspora stories with a new generation

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Panel Mania: Ba and Moon Explore Home and Family in ‘Two Brothers’

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This is the future of generative AI, according to generative AI

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“A Ghost Is a Memory.” On Bodies, Belief, and the Places Ghost Stories Live

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'Run, Brother, Run' author David Berg discusses his brother's murder – a crime made famous for the wrong reasons

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Murdoch family retains majority control of News Corp after shareholder vote

Activist investor Starboard Value had challenged ownership structure, as Murdoch family controls 41% of company votesLachlan Murdoch faced down a shareholder vote on Wednesday aimed at weakening the Murdoch family’s control over their media empire.The activist investor Starboard Value had... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Putnam Locks Down 'The Escape Game' by Marissa Meyer and Tamara Moss

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Why Whoopi Goldberg Helped Launch Family-Friendly Streaming Service BLKFam

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A ghost story about new motherhood? A TV writer's debut novel explores the female psyche

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‘Does This Taste Funny?’: How Stephen Colbert’s Family Cookbook Came to Be

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HBO posts casting call for next-generation Harry Potter TV series

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