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Landbridge : life in fragments  Cover Image Book Book

Landbridge : life in fragments / Y-Dang Troeung.

Summary:

"In 1980, Y-Dang Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60,000 refugees from Cambodia that then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau pledged to relocate to Canada. As the final arrivals, their landing was widely documented in newspapers, with photographs of the PM shaking Y-Dang's father's hand, reaching out to pat baby Y-Dang's head. Forty years later, in her brilliant, astonishing book, Y-Dang returns to this moment, and to many others before and after, to explore the tension between that public narrative of happy "arrival," and the multiple, often hidden truths of what happened to the people in her family. In precise, beautiful prose accompanied by moving black-and-white visuals, Y-Dang weaves back and forth in time to tell stories about her parents and two brothers who lived through the Cambodian genocide, about the lives of her grandparents and extended family, about her own childhood in the refugee camps and in rural Ontario, and eventually about her young son's illness and her own diagnosis with a terminal disease. Through it all, Y-Dang looks with bracing clarity at refugee existence, refusal of gratitude, becoming a scholar, and love."-- Publisher's website.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781039008762 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 299 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto, ON : Alchemy by Knopf Canada, [2023]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: Troeung, Y-Dang, 1980-2022 > Family.
Troeung, Y-Dang, 1980-2022 > Health.
Troeung, Y-Dang, 1980-2022.
Refugees > Cambodia > Biography.
Refugees > Canada > Biography.
Refugees > Canada > Social conditions.
Cambodian Canadians > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.
Autobiographies.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lakeshore Branch 971.004959320092 Troeu 31681010337079 NONFIC Available -


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