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Root Fractures: Poems Audiobook, by Diana Khoi Nguyen Play Audiobook Sample

Root Fractures: Poems Audiobook

Root Fractures: Poems Audiobook, by Diana Khoi Nguyen Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Diana Khoi Nguyen Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 1.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 1.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: January 2024 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781797168739

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

52

Longest Chapter Length:

08:03 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

28 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

02:18 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers and daughters across generations.

In Root Fractures, Diana Khoi Nguyen excavates the moments of rupture in a family: a mother who was forced underground after the Fall of Saigon, a father who engineered a new life in California as an immigrant, a brother who cut himself out of every family picture before cutting himself out of their lives entirely. And as new generations of the family come of age, opportunities to begin anew blend with visitations from the past. Through poems of disarming honesty and personal risk, Nguyen examines what takes root after a disaster and how we can make a story out of the broken pieces of our lives.

As Terrance Hayes writes, “‘There is nothing that is not music’ for this poet. Poetry is found in the gaps, silences, and ruptures of history.” This astonishing second collection renders poetry into an act of kintsugi, embellishing what is broken in a family’s legacy so that it can be seen in a new light.

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