Simon & Schuster Audio

9781797168739

STARRED REVIEW

Root Fractures

Movingly read by author Diana Khoi Nguyen herself, the audiobook of Root Fractures offers a close approximation of attending a poetry reading.

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Review of ‘Root Fractures’

Award-winning poet Diana Khoi Nguyen traverses deeply personal emotional landscapes in her second collection, Root Fractures. Nguyen's poems, as the title suggests, trace her family's fractures, from their origins in Vietnam, to her father's attempts to resettle and assimilate in California, to her brother's self-erasure from the family. Movingly read by Nguyen herself, the audiobook…

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