Root Fractures
About This Book
Root Fractures is the second poetry collection by Diana Khoi Nguyen, a National Book Award finalist. It looks at how a family's past keeps returning to haunt its present. It also confronts how loss and displacement reshape mothers and daughters across generations. Nguyen digs into the moments when her family broke apart. A mother was forced underground after the Fall of Saigon. A father, an immigrant in California, engineered a new life for himself. A brother cut himself out of every family photograph and then out of the family's life altogether. As younger generations grow up, chances to start fresh mingle with visits from the past. The poems are candid and take real personal risks. They ask what takes root after a disaster and how a story can be made from the broken pieces of a life. The collection treats poetry as a kind of kintsugi, adorning what is broken in a family's legacy so that it can be seen in a new light.
ISBN: 9781668031315
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