We were meant to be a gentle people
a memoir in text + image (+ song)
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Author
Publication
2015 - Paperdoll Works/PDW/MPMP, Portland, Oregon, Oregon
Language
English
Word Count
47,000 words, Guess
Page Count
188 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100990955516
- ISBN-139780990955511
- OCLC Control Number928574033
- Open LibraryOL44549794M
Classifications
- LCCPS3619.T77 Z46 2015
Alternate Titles
- We were meant to be a gentle people
Description
"A memoir in text, image, and song. In this unique hybrid work, author/musician Dao Strom navigates the spaces between shores, mother and father, two cultures. The daughter of writers, she fled Vietnam with her mother at the end of the war. It was not until years later that she learned her father was still alive and had spent a decade in Communist "reeducation" camps as persecution for his work as a writer in the pre-1975 era of Saigon. This rift--caught between the forward-looking mother who severed ties with the past, and the only tenuous presence of a father who could not turn away from the past--is the initiating ethos behind this memoir, which renders itself also as an experiment in literary multimedia, combining text, image, and song to express the nuances and buried emotions of aftermath" --
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