PositiveThe Washington PostNguyen keeps the narrative tightly focused on her personal journey of healing and the development of her identity as an activist ... Transformative.
Hisham Matar
RaveThe Washington Post...[a] breathtaking memoir ... Matar’s prose is both spare and soaring, transporting in the way a great painting or musical composition can be. His words are selected with careful intention; his sentences are at once poetic and conversational, his themes particular and universal. He masterfully depicts the shrinking that comes with exile.
