Ru is a short, ruminative novel about a Vietnamese refugee to Canada who is now raising her two sons in a strange, hybrid world. The novel exists in multiple worlds. As the title even tells you, ru means either a lullaby, as in a lullaby to her young sons, to her childhood, to the end of a culture or a set of cultural experiences now long asleep. In French, ru means a small river, as in a stream or a digression or a diversion. It […]