Owner of a Lonely Heart

"At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. 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. Owner of a Lonely Heart is 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, sometimes with her mother alone and sometimes with her sister"--

About the author

Beth Nguyen is the author of the recently published memoir Owner of a Lonely Heart, the memoir Stealing Buddha's Dinner, and two novels. Her work has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Best American Essays. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Nonfiction in 2024 and teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Product details

• Authors: Beth Nguyen, Beth Nguyen
• Publisher: Scribner USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.07.2023
• EAN: 9781982196349
• ISBN: 978-1-982196-34-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Autobiography: general, Memoirs, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Gender studies: women, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Gender studies: women and girls, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Asian & Asian American