A review by anharchive
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin

 An orbituary, a memorial, a reclamation for the refugee lives swallowed by the past, in the form of war or the waves afterwards. We follow Anh as she boards a boat that will take her to survival, to the UK where she negotiates her Vietnameseness and belonging. There’s not a plot or linear direction, just the looming shadow of history and the all-too heavy reality of what happened. Pin breaks linear storytelling in the way trauma unmoors and displaces – it is an important contribution to fleshing out the subjectivities of those living liminally.