Saigoneer
Trigger
Things We Lost to the Water, joins us today.
Things We Lost to the Water tells the story of a family who escapes Vietnam after the war and ends up settling in New Orleans, spanning a time period from the late 1970s to the destruction of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
We discussed why he set the story in New Orleans, why the theme of water is so important to the book, what he wants readers to take away from it, his work at
DiaCritics, and much more.
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Dark Horse Announces Halo: Legacy Collection
Halo: Legacy Collection. The new collection brings the previously published Halo comics
Halo Uprising,
Halo: Blood Line back into print.
Halo: Legacy Collection is set to release later this year on August 11th for $19.99. The comics in the collection feature words by Brian Michael Bendis (
Superman, Ultimate Spider-Man), Peter David (
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Reborn, Spider-Man 2099), and Fred Van Lente (
Conan the Avenger, Resurrectionists) as well as art from Alex Maleev (
Infamous Iron Man, Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.), Eric Nguyen (
X, Gigantic), and Francis Portela (
Black Panther, X-O Manowar) with colors by Matt Hollingsworth (
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Alexis Burling April 25, 2021Updated: April 25, 2021, 8:06 pm
Countless generations of Asians and Pacific Islanders have immigrated to America, enriched its culture and history, and helped make the country what it is today. Their stories are invaluable.
In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, here are three promising debuts from Asian American writers, coming out in May.
‘Swimming Back to Trout River’
By Linda Rui Feng
“Swimming Back to Trout River” by Linda Rui Feng Photo: Simon & Schuster
A well-known concept in Chinese culture,
yuanfen describes “an invisible mesh that loosely (binds) people and circumstances.”
In her immersive, gorgeously rendered debut set in the years surrounding the Chinese Cultural Revolution, first-generation Chinese immigrant and history Professor Linda Rui Feng uses this idea to frame the tragic yet impassioned tale of a couple torn apart by unrealized love, thwarted dreams and regret on their journey to f
NW Vietnamese News
April 25, 2021
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Beyond the fact his parents fled Vietnam in the 1980s as boat people, Eric Nguyen knows very little about who they were or what they lived through before he was born.
“They always had their eye on the future,” the 33-year-old author said in a recent phone call from his home in Washington, D.C. “There’s a lot they haven’t told me.”
Like so many others in his generation, Nguyen has never pressed his family hard for answers. Not only did he want to move on as he’d been taught to do, but he also had little desire to bring up painful memories for his refugee parents.