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House of Sticks

Auteur(s): Ly Tran
Narrateur(s): Ly Tran
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 New York City Book Awards Hornblower Award Winner

One of Vogue and NPR’s Best Books of the Year

This beautifully written “masterclass in memoir” (Elle) recounts a young girl’s journey from war-torn Vietnam to Queens, New York, “showcas[ing] the tremendous power we have to alter the fates of others, step into their lives and shift the odds in favor of greater opportunity” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis).

Ly Tran is just a toddler in 1993 when she and her family immigrate from a small town along the Mekong river in Vietnam to a two-bedroom railroad apartment in Queens. Ly’s father, a former lieutenant in the South Vietnamese army, spent nearly a decade as a POW, and their resettlement is made possible through a humanitarian program run by the US government. Soon after they arrive, Ly joins her parents and three older brothers sewing ties and cummerbunds piece-meal on their living room floor to make ends meet.

As they navigate this new landscape, Ly finds herself torn between two worlds. She knows she must honor her parents’ Buddhist faith and contribute to the family livelihood, working long hours at home and eventually as a manicurist alongside her mother at a nail salon in Brooklyn that her parents take over. But at school, Ly feels the mounting pressure to blend in.

A growing inability to see the blackboard presents new challenges, especially when her father forbids her from getting glasses, calling her diagnosis of poor vision a government conspiracy. His frightening temper and paranoia leave a mark on Ly’s sense of self. Who is she outside of everything her family expects of her?

An “unsentimental yet deeply moving examination of filial bond, displacement, war trauma, and poverty” (NPR), House of Sticks is a timely and powerful portrait of one girl’s coming-of-age and struggle to find her voice amid clashing cultural expectations. Femmes Inspirant

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"Ly Tran narrates her own memoir describing the struggles she faced growing up in a Vietnamese–American immigrant family in New York City. Tran beautifully pieces together short, personal stories about her family and the poverty and racism she encountered as she tried to find a sense of belonging. With powerful vulnerability and moments of humor, Tran takes listeners on her inspiring journey."
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This autobiography is read with simple brilliance by Ly Tran. Just hearing her narrate the ups and downs of her life as a new American is a potent aspect of her story: you get to hear the real voice of a survivor! Her story is told with a measured analysis of her difficult life with parents fighting to survive in a new country, Ly Tran wending her way around acceptance of herself and her times of exposure to hopelessness, and then, despite all travails, making a success of her early life,

Ly Tran's hopelessness was always met by someone extending a hand and pulling her back from disaster. Though the main thing, I think, was that people around her could see her intelligence, as well as what was deflecting her from finding her way. From the American government pulling her family out of Vietnam, long after the war was over, to that same government offering opportunies for free education and financial support, Ly Tran was pushed along by caring, selfless individuals.

What I got most from this story was that offering support to another person, never giving up on even self-destructive people, is most important. Ly Tran would still be working in a nail salon, crushed emotionally, had not caring people ignored her outward appearance of hopelessness and pushed open doors and sought help from even more people to give her the opportunity that allowed her a better future. America, oh America, how proudly you showed yourself in Ly Tran's life!

Self-image of potent inferiority seems to be a difficulty that young women face in our sexist culture. Ly Tran reveals the pain and danger of a young girl and young woman not getting emotional support. Her father's PTSD crushes her life for too long, despite all the help strangers and officials try to give. Her survival of the horrid behaviour of her wounded father is incredible.

Untimately, Ly Tran's story continues belief in The American Dream, though, it seems, nightmares, literally, have to be endured before it is to be had.

Li Tran's story is both wonderful history of an era in American history, but even better, a vivid emotional exploration of what it means to be a young girl and then a young woman, struggling to gain personhood despite every stress and shock and because of every kindness and determination.

Wow, what a great, GREAT story.

Small World, BIG STORY!

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