Names for Light
Subtitle: A Family History
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: Aug 17, 2021
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781644450611
Description: "Names for Light traverses time and memory to weigh three generations of a family's history against a painful inheritance of postcolonial violence and racism. In spare, lyric paragraphs framed by white space, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint explores home, belonging, and identity by revisiting the cities in which her parents and grandparents lived. As she makes inquiries into their stories, she intertwines oral narratives with the official and mythic histories of Myanmar. But while her family's stories move into the present, her own story--that of a writer seeking to understand who she is--moves into the past, until both converge at the end of the book"--
Notes: Source title: Names for Light: A Family History