Reviews: A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
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A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
“I am drawn to what Nguyen leaves inscrutable, untranslatable, resisting taxonomy and narrative itself; the way she refuses cartographies laid out by men, by nation-states, by form, by colonizer, and even by the fatalistic dynamics between mother and child.” a review by Megan Fernandes for Poetry Foundation
"She offers us these songs of her mother, complete with her own investigations of language as both subject and practice": on Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by Rebecca Morgan Frank in “On The Seawell”
“A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure is remarkable not only for its unrelenting evisceration of clichés about Vietnam and its people, but also for the variety of forms in which this re-visioning is told.” A review from David Starkey for California Review of Books
