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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This Vietnamese Publisher Is Expanding to Target 5 Million Ex-Pats in the US and Beyond

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New York’s Midcentury Art Scene Springs to Life in ‘The Loft Generation’

Edith Schloss’s memoir recounts an era of great creative vitality and the time she spent with Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Merce Cunningham, Leo Castelli and others. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Julia Fine: Ghosts of Rebel Children’s Book Authors

The author of The Upstairs House on postpartum depression, hauntings, and the legacy of Margaret Wise Brown. Continue reading at Guernica

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Christina Patterson | 'In our family we didn’t have weddings; only funerals'

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CONTEC México 2021: Focus on a ‘New Generation of Children’s Content’

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How a public library helped my family cope with the effects of climate change

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A Graphic Novel About 100 Years of Matrilineal Family History, From South China to Singapore

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Naomi Krupitsky’s ‘The Family’ is a mafia tale with a unique perspective

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In ‘New York, My Village,’ the long shadow of Nigeria’s civil war is impossible to escape

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In ‘The Swank Hotel,’ a family falls apart, and so does the world

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A Memoir of Filipino American Family Life in the Wake of Colonialism

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