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House of Sticks

by Ly Tran
S. & S. Audio. Jun. 2021. 11:16 hrs. ISBN 9781797124629. $25.99. MEMOIR
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Tran narrates her own memoir, about coming of age as a Vietnamese immigrant to the United States. In a straightforward, no-nonsense manner, Tran describes struggling with extreme nearsightedness, learning of her father’s time in a reeducation camp, helping her garment industry parents sew piecework after school, and later working at her mother’s nail salon where she had to deal with racist customers. Listeners will cheer as she relates overcoming difficulties at Hunter College and returning to complete her degree, eventually being accepted into Columbia University.
VERDICT Tran’s debut memoir is recommended for those who loved Tara Westover’s Educated, Jeanette Walls’s The Glass Castle, and Anchee Min’s The Cooked Seed.
Reviewed by David Faucheux, Lafayette, LA , Oct 01, 2021
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