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Fifth full length from Duluth trio recorded with Steve Albini. Guests include Marc D Gli Antoni of Soul Coughing, Daniel Huffman and Ida Pearle of Shellac. Standard jewel case. 2001 release.
Re-Release Date: 12/2/2003
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Fifth full length from Duluth trio recorded with Steve Albini. Guests include Marc D Gli Antoni of Soul Coughing, Daniel Huffman and Ida Pearle of Shellac. Standard jewel case. 2001 release.
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Nước the Vietnamese word for country and water permeates Eric Nguyen s haunting debut. Signifying both a place of origin and the means by which a boat refugee departs from such place of origin,
Things We Lost to the Water poignantly explores all the ways in which Vietnamese refugees are affected by country and water in sum, by dislocation.
Told from multiple perspectives and spanning 27 years, from 1978 to 2005,
Things We Lost to the Water gracefully manages to be both panoramic and specific, allegorical and literal. Most of the story takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana, with subsidized apartments, dilapidated shotgun houses, colorful duplexes, and the trash-strewn bayou where refugees discard their unwanted mementos as backdrop. At the novel s outset, Hương has just arrived in the city with her two young sons, five-year-old Tuấn and baby Ben, after a harrowing escape by sea and a crowded, stressful stay at a Singaporean refugee camp. Công Hương s husb
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Trigger
When it comes to the Vietnamese diaspora in the United States, everyone knows about California’s huge community.
Some may be familiar with other communities in Houston or the Washington D.C. area, but you rarely hear about Vietnamese in New Orleans. This group, which numbers around 15,000 people, is the focal point of
Things We Lost to the Water, the debut novel from Eric Nguyen, the editor-in-chief of online literary portal
It tells the multi-generational story of a Vietnamese family who flees southern Vietnam at the end of the war and arrives in New Orleans under sponsorship by the Catholic church, tracking their lives all the way through the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on the city.
Nước the Vietnamese word for country and water permeates Eric Nguyen s haunting debut. Signifying both a place of origin and the means by which a boat refugee departs from such place of origin,
Things We Lost to the Water poignantly explores all the ways in which Vietnamese refugees are affected by country and water in sum, by dislocation.
Told from multiple perspectives and spanning 27 years, from 1978 to 2005,
Things We Lost to the Water gracefully manages to be both panoramic and specific, allegorical and literal. Most of the story takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana, with subsidized apartments, dilapidated shotgun houses, colorful duplexes, and the trash-strewn bayou where refugees discard their unwanted mementos as backdrop. At the novel s outset, Hương has just arrived in the city with her two young sons, five-year-old Tuấn and baby Ben, after a harrowing escape by sea and a crowded, stressful stay at a Singaporean refugee camp. Công Hương s husba
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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