Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir of Motherhood and Absence - Beth Nguyen

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Named a Best Memoir of 2023 by Oprah Daily - Selected by Time, NPR, and BookPage as a Best Book of 2023 nThis book...is what memoir writing in the hands of a caring, curious wunderkind can be. --Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy n nFrom the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fractured by war and resettlement. n nAt the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her family fled Saigon for America. Only Beth's mother stayed--or was left--behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent less than twenty-four hours together. n nOwner of a Lonely Heart is a portrait of things left unsaid (The New York Times), a memoir about parenthood, absence, and the condition of being a refugee: the story of Beth's relationship with her mother. Framed by a handful of visits over the course of many years--sometimes brief, sometimes interrupted, some alone with her mother and others with the company of her sister--Beth tells an unforgettable (People) coming-of-age story that spans her childhood in the Midwest, her first meeting with her mother, and her own experience of parenthood.n