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Book Synopsis A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by : Hoa Nguyen
Download or read book A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure written by Hoa Nguyen and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY Hoa Nguyen’s latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-“Fall-of-Saigon” and comprises a verse biography on her mother, Diep Anh Nguyen, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered, plaintive, and provocative, the poems in A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure are alive with archive and inhabit histories. In turns lyrical and unsettling, her poetry sings of language and loss; dialogues with time, myth and place; and communes with past and future ghosts.
Book Synopsis Ghosts of an Hoa by : William L. Brooks
Download or read book Ghosts of an Hoa written by William L. Brooks and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Vietnam War escalates, a teenager joins the Marines! William L. Brooks is a native New Yorker, born in the Borough of Queens. Upon graduating from Aviation High School, Mr. Brooks enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, where he served with both the First and Second Marine Divisions. He saw action during the Vietnam War, where he was awarded several medals, including the Purple Heart and the Vietnam Campaign Medal. He was honorably discharged in 1969.
Download or read book The Other Shore written by Hoa Pham and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the dead begin speaking to sixteen-year-old Kim Nguyen, her peaceful childhood is over. A delicate meditation on the nature of ghosts, belief, and how the future is shaped by the past. When the dead begin speaking to sixteen-year-old Kim Nguyen, her peaceful childhood is over. Suddenly everyone wants to exploit her new talent—her family, the Vietnamese government, and even the spirits themselves.
Book Synopsis War and Shadows by : Mai Lan Gustafsson
Download or read book War and Shadows written by Mai Lan Gustafsson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnamese culture and religious traditions place the utmost importance on dying well: in old age, body unblemished, with surviving children, and properly buried and mourned. More than five million people were killed in the Vietnam War, many of them young, many of them dying far from home. Another 300,000 are still missing. Having died badly, they are thought to have become angry ghosts, doomed to spend eternity in a kind of spirit hell. Decades after the war ended, many survivors believe that the spirits of those dead and missing have returned to haunt their loved ones. In War and Shadows, the anthropologist Mai Lan Gustafsson tells the story of the anger of these spirits and the torments of their kin. Gustafsson's rich ethnographic research allows her to bring readers into the world of spirit possession, focusing on the source of the pain, the physical and mental anguish the spirits bring, and various attempts to ameliorate their anger through ritual offerings and the intervention of mediums. Through a series of personal life histories, she chronicles the variety of ailments brought about by the spirits' wrath, from headaches and aching limbs (often the same limb lost by a loved one in battle) to self-mutilation. In Gustafsson's view, the Communist suppression of spirit-based religion after the fall of Saigon has intensified anxieties about the well-being of the spirit world. While shrines and mourning are still allowed, spirit mediums were outlawed and driven underground, along with many of the other practices that might have provided some comfort. Despite these restrictions, she finds, victims of these hauntings do as much as possible to try to lay their ghosts to rest.
Download or read book The Refugees written by Viet Thanh Nguyen and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Beautiful and heartrending” fiction set in Vietnam and America from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer (Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker) In these powerful stories, written over a period of twenty years and set in both Vietnam and America, Viet Thanh Nguyen paints a vivid portrait of the experiences of people leading lives between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. This incisive collection by the National Book Award finalist and celebrated author of The Committed gives voice to the hopes and expectations of people making life-changing decisions to leave one country for another, and the rifts in identity, loyalties, romantic relationships, and family that accompany relocation. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her with a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of migration. “Terrific.” —Chicago Tribune “An important and incisive book.” —The Washington Post “An urgent, wonderful collection.” —NPR
Book Synopsis Index of Haunted Houses by : Adam O. Davis
Download or read book Index of Haunted Houses written by Adam O. Davis and published by Sarabande Books. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of ghost stories, and for the most part, ghosts are jealous monsters, intent upon our destruction. They never appear overtly here, yet we gradually become aware of their presence the way spirits in haunted houses trod over creaky floors, slam doors, and issue sudden gusts of wind. The poems are Koan-like—the fewer the words, the more charged they are. The engine driving this sense of haunting and loss is money, which Davis describes as “federal bone” boiling around us. Bison in Nebraska are reduced to bones, “seven/standing men/tall” fodder for the fertilizer used by farmers in the 1800s. Though they often specify dates, there’s an equality to the hauntings—every instance has its moment, and persists, despite being in the past, present, or future. If there really was a 1980 or 1848 or 1499, Davis implies it is somewhere. Index of Haunted Houses is spooky and sad—a stunning debut, one that will surprise, convince, and most of all, delight.
Book Synopsis Dayton Ghosts & Legends by : Sara K. Kaushal
Download or read book Dayton Ghosts & Legends written by Sara K. Kaushal and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every city has its odd and scary side, and Dayton is no exception. The ghost of Paul Sorg still sits in his favorite seat in the Sorg Opera House more than a hundred years after his death. The so-called phantom terrorized truck drivers crossing the Englewood Dam before disappearing for good. The famed Butter Street Monster roams Germantown. Magee Park is home to numerous bigfoot and ghost sightings--and even a unicorn sighting. A building of many names, the tower on Patterson Boulevard in Kettering near Hills and Dales Park has been the source of many stories for generations, but only now is its true story finally told. Dayton native, author, and host of the Dayton Unknown blog Sara Kaushal leads a chilling tour of Gem City's strange and unusual history.
Book Synopsis Ghosts of War in Vietnam by : Heonik Kwon
Download or read book Ghosts of War in Vietnam written by Heonik Kwon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls of the war dead. These ghosts of war play an important part in postwar Vietnamese historical narrative and imagination and Heonik Kwon explores the intimate ritual ties with these unsettled identities which still survive in Vietnam today as well as the actions of those who hope to liberate these hidden but vital historical presences from their uprooted social existence. Taking a unique approach to the cultural history of war, he introduces gripping stories about spirits claiming social justice and about his own efforts to wrestle with the physical and spiritual presence of ghosts. Although these actions are fantastical, this book shows how examining their stories can illuminate critical issues of war and collective memory in Vietnam and the modern world more generally.
Book Synopsis The master is so mesmerizing, the supreme disciple! by : Michael Lincolnhol
Download or read book The master is so mesmerizing, the supreme disciple! written by Michael Lincolnhol and published by Michael Lincolnhol. This book was released on with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The streets are bustling, the flow of people is like running water. At the entrance to the small town, a thin and small figure staggered forward, bright red liquid oozing out of her body, swirling everywhere. Strangely, the roadside flowers and grass were already soaked with blood, and for a moment, it was like drinking a fairy spring, changing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon, the whole body of these flowers and grass was like there is a glint of prophecy. She squatted down to stroke the other flower and grass, her fingertips passed through the stem of the flower without any hindrance, her face was sad, she withdrew her hand, stood up and continued.
Book Synopsis The House on Tradd Street by : Karen White
Download or read book The House on Tradd Street written by Karen White and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant, chilling debut of Karen White's New York Times bestselling Tradd Street series, featuring a Charleston real estate agent who loves old houses—and the secret histories inside them. Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But she's going to have to accept it. An old man she recently met has died, leaving her his historic Tradd Street home, complete with housekeeper, dog—and a family of ghosts anxious to tell her their secrets. Enter Jack Trenholm, a gorgeous writer obsessed with unsolved mysteries. He has reason to believe that diamonds from the Confederate Treasury are hidden in the house. So he turns the charm on with Melanie, only to discover he's the smitten one... It turns out Jack's search has caught the attention of a malevolent ghost. Now, Jack and Melanie must unravel a mystery of passion, heartbreak—and even murder.
Book Synopsis Experiments in Skin by : Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
Download or read book Experiments in Skin written by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Experiments in Skin Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the ongoing influence of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty. Framing skin as the site around which these ideas have been formed, Tu foregrounds the histories of militarism in the production of US biomedical knowledge and commercial cosmetics. She uncovers the efforts of wartime scientists in the US Military Dermatology Research Program to alleviate the environmental and chemical risks to soldiers' skin. These dermatologists sought relief for white soldiers while denying that African American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians were also vulnerable to harm. Their experiments led to the development of pharmaceutical cosmetics, now used by women in Ho Chi Minh City to tend to their skin, and to grapple with the damage caused by the war's lingering toxicity. In showing how the US military laid the foundations for contemporary Vietnamese consumption of cosmetics and practices of beauty, Tu shows how the intersecting histories of militarism, biomedicine, race, and aesthetics become materially and metaphorically visible on skin.
Book Synopsis Utah Bandits, Bushwackers, Outlaws, Crooks, Devils, Ghosts, Desperadoes and Other Assorted and Sundry Characters! by : Carole Marsh
Download or read book Utah Bandits, Bushwackers, Outlaws, Crooks, Devils, Ghosts, Desperadoes and Other Assorted and Sundry Characters! written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Delaware Bandits, Bushwhackers, Outlaws, Crooks, Devils, Ghosts, Desperadoes and Other Assorted and Sundry Characters by : Carole Marsh
Download or read book Delaware Bandits, Bushwhackers, Outlaws, Crooks, Devils, Ghosts, Desperadoes and Other Assorted and Sundry Characters written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Delaware Bandits, Bushwackers, Outlaws, Crooks, Devils, Ghosts, Desperadoes and Other Assorted and Sundry Characters by : Carole Marsh
Download or read book Delaware Bandits, Bushwackers, Outlaws, Crooks, Devils, Ghosts, Desperadoes and Other Assorted and Sundry Characters written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Haunted Earth written by Peter Read and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary book tackles head-on the existence and meaning of spirit forces in Australia. Haunted Earth asks a few key questions: Is Australia haunted? If so, where, and with what? Are there spiritual or otherwise ‘special’ places in Australia? Each chapter follows a round-the-clock journey, from midnight to midnight, charting the activities of Australians of many different experiences and cultures: there are Aboriginal spirits on Flinders Island at daybreak, the summoning of a Chinese ancestor spirit at noon in Perth, an exorcism in New South Wales in early afternoon.
Book Synopsis Violet Energy Ingots by : Hoa Nguyen
Download or read book Violet Energy Ingots written by Hoa Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems of loss, rage, love, and what endures.
Book Synopsis A Homebuyer’s Guide to Haunted Living by : Clare Chu
Download or read book A Homebuyer’s Guide to Haunted Living written by Clare Chu and published by Gigaverse Press. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the hilariously eerie world of real estate with your not-so-ordinary realtor, Cassandra "Cassie" Spectre. Ever thought a poltergeist could polish your cooking skills or a ghostly coach might just be the secret to your fitness success? Cassie Spectre’s guide to finding a haunted homemate makes these spectrally intelligent scenarios a reality.. Raised in a haunted Victorian mansion and descending from a long line of mediums, Cassie left her mundane corporate finance job to embrace her true calling: matching the living with lovingly haunted homes. From the mildly haunted fixer-upper to the grandiose poltergeist palace, this guidebook explores the uncharted territory of spectral real estate with wit, wisdom, and a touch of the otherworldly. With a quiz to match your personality to the perfect type of haunting, tips on reading between the lines of real estate listings, and advice on navigating open houses with paranormal poise, Cassie provides you a roadmap to finding a home that's as unique as you are. Find out why embracing a home with a "little extra" might just be the best decision you'll ever make. Discover the unexpected joys of haunted living and learn that with the right perspective, even a home with spirits can be a dream come true.
