A Nail the Evening Hangs on
β Scribed by Monica Sok
- Book ID
- 110660935
- Publisher
- Copper Canyon Press
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 127 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781619322165
- ASIN
- B086BVMGV5
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family's memory about the Khmer Rouge regimeβmemory that is both real and imaginedβaccording to a child of refugees. Driven by myth-making and fables, the poems examine the inheritance of the genocide and the profound struggles of searing grief and PTSD. Though the landscape of Cambodia is always present, it is the liminal space, the in-betweenness of diaspora, in which younger generations must reconcile their history and create new rituals. A Nail the Evening Hangs On seeks to reclaim the Cambodian narrative with tenderness and an imagination that moves towards wholeness and possibility.
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