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Nguyen, Bich Minh, author.
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Nguyen, Bich Minh.
Immigrants -- Michigan -- Biography.
Vietnamese Americans -- Michigan -- Biography.
Mothers and daughters -- United States.
Refugees -- Biography.
Parenthood.
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Owner of a lonely he...
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Owner of a lonely heart : a memoir / Beth Nguyen.
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Nguyen, Bich Minh, author.
New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2023.
Subjects
Nguyen, Bich Minh.
Immigrants -- Michigan -- Biography.
Vietnamese Americans -- Michigan -- Biography.
Mothers and daughters -- United States.
Refugees -- Biography.
Parenthood.
ISBN:
9781982196349 (hardcover) :
1982196343 (hardcover)
Description:
ix, 237 pages ; 23 cm
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Contents:
Twenty-four hours -- Apparent, part I -- Date of birth -- The photograph -- Apparent, part II -- Apparent, part III -- My mothers -- White mothers -- The story of my name -- Apparent, revisited.
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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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Hawaii State Library
Adult New Books
977.40049 Nguyen Ng
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05/20/2024
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Hilo Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
977.40049 Nguyen Ng
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Kailua Public Library
Adult New Books
977.40049 Nguyen Ng
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05/17/2024
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Kailua-Kona Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
977.40049 Nguyen Ng
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05/21/2024
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Kapaa Public Library
Adult New Books
B Nguyen Ng
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Kapolei Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
977.40049 Nguyen Ng
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05/10/2024
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Manoa Public Library
Adult Biography
B Nguyen Ng
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05/22/2024
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McCully-Moiliili Public Library
Adult Biography
B Nguyen Ng
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Mililani Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
977.40049 Nguyen Ng
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Naalehu Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
977.40049 Nguyen Ng
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