Motherhood, Daughterhood, and Loss in “Owner of a Lonely Heart” – Chicago Review of Books

Motherhood, Daughterhood, and Loss in “Owner of a Lonely Heart” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Halfway through Owner of a Lonely Heart, Beth Nguyen writes: “What would it take to make someone, to make you, to make me—leave everything known? The history of my family is also the history of multiple wars, of colonization, of imperialism, of loss and diaspora.” This line characterizes Nguyen’s full body of work, which … Read more