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We’re all the same to them

The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

December 6, 2022 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

“Yours is a lucky generation.” “I wouldn’t say we were so lucky,” Phuong said. “You’ve never appreciated what you have.” Her father waved his hand over the meal and Phuong squeezed her glass, bracing to hear the stories of her parents one more time. ……. “Phuong was bemused at how these tourists would want to spend their money and their day here, instead of at the beach, or at a fancy restaurant, or in a hammock at a rustic riverside café. The reason for such […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Short Stories Tagged With: immigrant, refugee, refugee experience, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Vietnam, Vietnam war, Vietnamese American family

carmelpie's CBR14 Review No:39 · Genres: Fiction, History, Short Stories · Tags: immigrant, refugee, refugee experience, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Vietnam, Vietnam war, Vietnamese American family ·
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Sweet but not sappy

The Yellow Ao Dai by Hanh Bui

September 9, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I was thinking that The Yellow Ao Dai was going to be super sappy. The cover is cute and sweet looking, and the main character is a young child. The subject felt as if it was going to be a “feel good tale.” And it is but all that, but it is more, too. It is a feel-good story, but there is some meat with those potatoes. We follow a young Vietnamese girl excited to share part of her culture with her class, but her […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Poetry, Religion Tagged With: culture, daughters, family, grandmothers, Hanh Bui, Minnie Phan, mothers, Vietnam

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:475 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Poetry, Religion · Tags: culture, daughters, family, grandmothers, Hanh Bui, Minnie Phan, mothers, Vietnam ·
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Heartwrenching and So Good

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

August 16, 2022 by Ellesfena 2 Comments

Bingo: Heart (themes of familial love) What a lovely book. The Best We Could Do is a graphic novel by Thi Bui. It’s a story about her family. It starts with Thi giving birth to her son, and as she comes to terms with becoming a mother, she finds herself thinking about her relationships with her own parents and her childhood. From there, she explores her parents’ childhoods, how they met, their life in Viet Nam prior to and during the war, and their escape to the […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: cbr14bingo, Graphic Novel, The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui, Viet nam, Vietnam

Ellesfena's CBR14 Review No:17 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: cbr14bingo, Graphic Novel, The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui, Viet nam, Vietnam ·
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Bitter, Sweet, Love, Family

Hundred Years of Happiness by Thanhha Lai

April 4, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I had many emotions and thoughts while reading Hundred Years of Happiness. I was wondering the nationality of the family (you learn Vietnamese) as I was curious where the food came from and where the traditional represented (colors are important to cultures and I was wondering why white was not used).  Then, I would become emotional as I realized this is not really a happy story, but a bittersweet one about the love of a grandchild and grandparents. And where one grandparent, the grandmother, is […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Health, Romance Tagged With: dementia, Emotions & Feelings, family, grandmother and granddaughters, grandparents, Kim Lien, Multigenerational, Nguyen Quang, Thanhha Lai, United States - Asian American & Pacific Islander, Vietnam

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:134 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Health, Romance · Tags: dementia, Emotions & Feelings, family, grandmother and granddaughters, grandparents, Kim Lien, Multigenerational, Nguyen Quang, Thanhha Lai, United States - Asian American & Pacific Islander, Vietnam ·
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So Lovely

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

March 22, 2022 by Ellesfena 1 Comment

The Magic Fish is an absolutely beautiful graphic novel–both the pictures and the story itself. It’s the story of a boy, Tiến, whose been keeping a secret from his friends and family. Tiến’s parents emigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam. His parents are working on improving their English, and so every night he reads fairy tales with his mother. Meanwhile, he tries to figure out how to cross the language barrier to tell his parents that he’s gay. To help his mother with her English, she […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult Tagged With: fairy tale, Graphic Novel, LGBTQ, Trung Le Nguyen, Vietnam

Ellesfena's CBR14 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: fairy tale, Graphic Novel, LGBTQ, Trung Le Nguyen, Vietnam ·
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slick with sweat, thick with hate-and I love it

The Lover by Marguerite Duras

March 2, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Somehow, this incredible little novella flew completely under my radar until last year. Luckily, the folks over at Lit Hub are absolutely obsessed, and I was unable to remain in the dark for much longer. When it’s in a book I don’t think it’ll hurt any more …exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them. While not entirely an “autobiography”, Duras tells the tale of a very young girl who grew up in an unstable household in French-colonized […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction Tagged With: 20th Century, Colonists, coming-of-age, desire, family, French language, french literature, hate, Hiroshima mon Amour, Lit Hub, lust, marguerite duras, Maxine Hong Kingston, Race, semi-autobiographical, Vietnam

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction · Tags: 20th Century, Colonists, coming-of-age, desire, family, French language, french literature, hate, Hiroshima mon Amour, Lit Hub, lust, marguerite duras, Maxine Hong Kingston, Race, semi-autobiographical, Vietnam ·
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