RaveBrooklyn RailNguyen is a confident and reliable protagonist even when running up against painful memories, providing readers with enough distance as to almost be objective ... Nguyen has made a journey of facing her origins and contending with the limitations of American narratives, and we are lucky to be invited along the way.
Sabrina Imbler
RaveRumpusIt is refreshing to be invited into the crafting of a narrative, to see how one can build upon a literature while acknowledging the need to move past it ... Imbler writes against the \'cold, hard facts,\' making science and documentation susceptible to the whims of revision and creating space for more imagination, more change, and more grace.
