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Owner of a Lonely Heart
- A Memoir
- De: Beth Nguyen
- Narrado por: Beth Nguyen
- Duración: 5 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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 19. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent less than 24 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.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Huge pity party for the author
- De Amazon Customer en 09-10-24
- Owner of a Lonely Heart
- A Memoir
- De: Beth Nguyen
- Narrado por: Beth Nguyen
Disappointing
Revisado: 10-21-23
I was looking forward to this memoir after reading Stealing Buddha's dinner last year, which I thoroughly enjoyed. However, after Nguyen declared that her white boyfriend's mother's gift to her of a canvas bag with Nguyen's initials embroidered on it was an act of assimilation, I could not continue listening. It was not the first remark of this nature. It seems a lot of the internalized racism, and even blatant racism she experienced is being projected onto the actions of people who were kind and welcoming to Nguyen.
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