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Things We Lost to the Water audiobook
- By: Eric Nguyen
- Narrator: Quyen Ngo
- Category: Coming of Age, Fiction
- Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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Things We Lost to the Water Audiobook Summary
A captivating novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped. This stunning debut is “vast in scale and ambition, while luscious and inviting … in its intimacy” (The New York Times Book Review).
When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle in to life in America, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Cong, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father.
But with time, Huong realizes she will never see her husband again. While she attempts to come to terms with this loss, her sons, Tuan and Binh, grow up in their absent father’s shadow, haunted by a man and a country trapped in their memories and imaginations. As they push forward, the three adapt to life in America in different ways: Huong gets involved with a Vietnamese car salesman who is also new in town; Tuan tries to connect with his heritage by joining a local Vietnamese gang; and Binh, now going by Ben, embraces his adopted homeland and his burgeoning sexuality. Their search for identity–as individuals and as a family–threatens to tear them apart, until disaster strikes the city they now call home and they are suddenly forced to find a new way to come together and honor the ties that bind them.
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Things We Lost to the Water Audiobook Narrator
Quyen Ngo is the narrator of Things We Lost to the Water audiobook that was written by Eric Nguyen
About the Author(s) of Things We Lost to the Water
Eric Nguyen is the author of Things We Lost to the Water
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Things We Lost to the Water Full Details
| Narrator | Quyen Ngo |
| Length | 10 hours 38 minutes |
| Author | Eric Nguyen |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 02, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593410974 |
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The publisher of the Things We Lost to the Water is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593410974.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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