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lilyreads01's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence, War, and Terminal illness
fourfootedbeasts's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
jackiedrinkscoffee's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
alexutzu's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and everyone that contributed to the existence of this book for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest review!
This was a shattering book that brought tears to my eyes multiple times. It was also a beautifully written account of a tragic story that many refugees have to go through. The journal-like structure, build upon entries represented by fragments of history, sayings and stories, letters to her son and images, creates a complete perspective on the life of the author blending with the horrors of the past. I liked how the book started with explaining the title through a definition, while towards the end it came back to it again through a story, like a cycle. I also felt that the poetic style brought even more depth to it.
I felt that going through a terrible illness and writing something like this for the close ones is an emotional, but wholesome and brave gift to leave behind, a chance to pour everything out. Hope that the author will rest in peace, she seemed to have amazing book ideas that I would have liked to check out if she got to write them.
I would like to wrap up the review with a quote from the book that I really appreciated because of its meaning. I feel that it is a beautiful manner to describe the way in which different people can connect and provide help and support in times of need, teaching us to always be considerate to each other:
This was a shattering book that brought tears to my eyes multiple times. It was also a beautifully written account of a tragic story that many refugees have to go through. The journal-like structure, build upon entries represented by fragments of history, sayings and stories, letters to her son and images, creates a complete perspective on the life of the author blending with the horrors of the past. I liked how the book started with explaining the title through a definition, while towards the end it came back to it again through a story, like a cycle. I also felt that the poetic style brought even more depth to it.
I felt that going through a terrible illness and writing something like this for the close ones is an emotional, but wholesome and brave gift to leave behind, a chance to pour everything out. Hope that the author will rest in peace, she seemed to have amazing book ideas that I would have liked to check out if she got to write them.
I would like to wrap up the review with a quote from the book that I really appreciated because of its meaning. I feel that it is a beautiful manner to describe the way in which different people can connect and provide help and support in times of need, teaching us to always be considerate to each other:
"With only our bodies and our hearts, we build a bridge."
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide and War
Moderate: Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, and Racism
kittykets's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.75
cameronwaller's review against another edition
5.0
unbelievable how great this is. it's pulsing with the energy of quiet revolution in my hands
'landbridge' is not a book, it's life in a beautiful, disparate, transient package
I’m so moved by the experience of sitting with Y-Dang’s story. her efforts to disentangle the complex threads in her mind through separate modes-of-being really did build into a fabulous body of expression
I was lucky enough to have known Y-Dang, however briefly, during her brilliant life - a generous teacher, an incredible mind
coming this fall, @knopfca
'landbridge' is not a book, it's life in a beautiful, disparate, transient package
I’m so moved by the experience of sitting with Y-Dang’s story. her efforts to disentangle the complex threads in her mind through separate modes-of-being really did build into a fabulous body of expression
I was lucky enough to have known Y-Dang, however briefly, during her brilliant life - a generous teacher, an incredible mind
coming this fall, @knopfca
bookboy_troy's review against another edition
5.0
Just an absolutely incredible, powerful, and heartbreaking work of nonfiction. This reading experience will stay with me for the rest of my life. The emotional force of Y-Dang's prose sweeps you into her own lifeworld and the stories and lifeworlds of the Cambodian refugees she writes fiercely and passionately of.
This book is about her history and the history of the Cambodian genocide, but it is also about reclaiming and rewriting the narrative made about her upon her and her family's resettlement in Canada. You feel so intensely the weight of trauma that is carried throughout the lives of people that have had to flee their homelands from unspeakable and unimaginable tragedy, violence and genocide.
Rest peacefully, Y-Dang. Her words will continue to inform and inspire the world and I am in awe of the fortitude and resilience her life and work has given me as a reader of this book. A gift.
This book is about her history and the history of the Cambodian genocide, but it is also about reclaiming and rewriting the narrative made about her upon her and her family's resettlement in Canada. You feel so intensely the weight of trauma that is carried throughout the lives of people that have had to flee their homelands from unspeakable and unimaginable tragedy, violence and genocide.
Rest peacefully, Y-Dang. Her words will continue to inform and inspire the world and I am in awe of the fortitude and resilience her life and work has given me as a reader of this book. A gift.