Owner of a lonely heart : a memoir
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Marshall-Lyon County Library - Display | NGUYEN, B. 2023 | On Shelf |
Rock County Community Library - Adult Non-Fiction | 977.40049 Nguyen | On Shelf |
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ix, 237 pages ; 23 cm
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"From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement. At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. Beth's mother stayed--or was left--behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent less than twenty-four hours together. Owner of a Lonely Heart is a memoir about parenthood, absence, and the condition of being a refugee: the story of Beth's relationship with her mother. Framed by a handful of visits over the course of many years--sometimes brief, sometimes interrupted, sometimes with her mother alone and sometimes with her sister--Beth tells a coming-of-age story that spans her own Midwestern childhood, her first meeting with her mother, and becoming a parent herself. Vivid and illuminating, Owner of a Lonely Heart is a deeply personal story of family, connection, and belonging: as a daughter, a mother, and as a Vietnamese refugee in America"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Nguyen, B. M. (2023). Owner of a lonely heart: a memoir . Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Nguyen, Bich Minh. 2023. Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir. Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Nguyen, Bich Minh. Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Nguyen, Bich Minh. Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2023.
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