ISBN: 9781501118814
Editorial: Scribner
Autor: Tran, Ly
Año de edición: 2021
N° Páginas: 384
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Críticas "Tran fluctuates between tenderness and quiet rage ... [Tran] honor[s] these complexities, tell[s] us we were not meant to swallow our pain and survive in this world without support systems." --New York Times Book Review"[An] unsentimental yet deeply moving examination of filial bond, displacement, war trauma, and poverty. Ostensibly an immigrant success story, Tran's narrative power lies in its nuanced celebration of filial devotion that withstands the enormous cost of the American dream ... The dilapidated nail salon in a racially volatile Brooklyn neighborhood that Tran's parents came to own after the end of their sweatshop era -- with its filing sticks as tools of the trade -- witnessed their stark tribulations as well as the wondrous resilience of their immigrant selves. In the end, Tran's empathy and her parents' appreciation of her filial love cemented the emotional bricks that steady their seemingly tenuous hold on this unaccustomed earth." --NPR "Powerful ... showcases the tremendous power we have to alter the fates of others, step into their lives and shift the odds in favor of greater opportunity" --Minneapolis Star Tribune "House of Sticks is a book that will assault and warm your heart at the same time--a classic immigrant tale, told from the perspective of a Vietnamese child who settled with her family in New York City in the early '90s with little to no knowledge about life in America... But it is also much more: a coming of age story, A New York hustle, a battle with a father who not only maintains an ironclad sense of filial duty, but also, fueled by his paranoia, exercises irrational control over things like vision correction. (In another elegant examination of absence, the book recounts what a fundamental challenge it is to move through the world without basic ability to see.)" --Vogue, Best Books to Read 2021 "Graceful but unflinching, Ly Tran's House of Sticks follows the author's immigration from Vietnam to New York as a toddler, and the subsequent identity shaping and re-shaping she undergoes throughout her youth and early adult years. Resettled in Queens through a humanitarian program--her father is a former POW--Tran attempts to honor her family through faith and labor, only to find herself yearning for something that exists outside of their home. Intimate yet universal, this is a masterclass in memoir." --Elle, Best Books of Summer 2021 "A moving recount of how Tran and her family immigrated from a small town in Vietnam to a two-bedroom railroad apartment in Queens, and how she forged her path in a new culture." --Marie Claire, 20 New Books by Asian Authors to Get Excited About "Tran found herself pulled in myriad directions by her desires: to please her family, to fit in with her friends, to chart her own course, to belong. She tells her own coming-of-age story in House of Sticks." --Bustle, 44 New Must-Read Books Out This June "In this moving debut memoir, Ly Tran recounts emigrating from Vietnam to the United States with her family in the early 1990s. It's in New York City that she comes into her own, at once attempting to fit into this new world as well as honor deep traditions, the need to contribute to the family and her father's resistance to new ways." --Ms. Magazine "While Ly Tran's debut memoir House of Sticks is an affecting tale of the immigrant experience, it is also a beautiful coming-of-age story that traverses from Tran's early childhood all the way up to her college years." --Mochi Magazine "A special memoir in which, though circumstances are difficult, love wins out...beautiful and inspirational." --Fredricksburg Free-Lance Star "In this insightful and oftentimes heartbreaking new memoir, Tran details growing up as an immigrant in late '90s and early '00s America ... Each chapter brings incredible insight into the immigrant experience, what it is like to learn an entirely new culture, and what it means to forge a path of one's own." --Erie Reader "In this coming-of-age
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Tran, Ly
- Editorial: Scribner
- N° Paginas: 384
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
