Meanwhile, Hương, Tuấn, and Bình were living in the Versailles Arms apartments. In the letter, he told Hương not to write to him anymore. She started sending letters and cassette recordings of her voice back to him in Vietnam. She still could not understand why her husband had not come with her, and became desperate to contact him. The city was strange and unfamiliar, and amplified Hương's sense of loss and longing. With her newborn infant, Bình, and her young son, Tuấn, Hương attempted to orient to life in New Orleans. Hương departed to an unknown place on her own, still pregnant with her second son. On the night she, Công, and Tuấn were meant to leave for America, Công failed to get on the boat. However, when Tuấn was still a little boy, the Vietnam War broke out, and Hương's familial structure and stability faltered. For a time, she felt that her life was the definition of happiness. The following summary employs the past tense and an entirely linear form.Īfter meeting and falling in love with Công, Hương got married and began a family. The novel follows a largely linear structure, tracing Hương, Tuấn, and Ben's trip from Vietnam to the States, and their life in America over the subsequent years. Those chapters labeled with a character's name and a year, are written in the past tense. The chapters labeled solely with the month and year are written in the first person. Knopf, 2021.Įric Nguyen's novel Things We Lost to the Water is written from the third person point of view, and combines both the past and present tenses. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Nguyen, Eric.
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