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A review by girlglitch
Landbridge: life in fragments by Y-Dang Troeung
5.0
Landbridge is a powerful memoir of refugee experience by Y-Dang Troeung, whose family were 'the last' Cambodian refugees granted asylum into Canada.
This creative, non-linear personal history is split into fragments, interspersed with art, photography and newspaper cuttings. As well as recounting her own life and experience - including her academic career, her son's birth and illness and her own, fatal cancer diagnosis - Troeung explores the wider Cambodian and East Asian history, questioning who has the agency to tell stories of collective trauma, genocide and conflict? Troeung raises thought-provoking questions and relates the stories of her birth country with care and sensitivity.
Landbridge is a brave and beautiful memoir that captures the heartbreaking reality of refugee experience in all its complexity.
*Thank you to Netgalley for the arc in exchange for an honest review*
This creative, non-linear personal history is split into fragments, interspersed with art, photography and newspaper cuttings. As well as recounting her own life and experience - including her academic career, her son's birth and illness and her own, fatal cancer diagnosis - Troeung explores the wider Cambodian and East Asian history, questioning who has the agency to tell stories of collective trauma, genocide and conflict? Troeung raises thought-provoking questions and relates the stories of her birth country with care and sensitivity.
Landbridge is a brave and beautiful memoir that captures the heartbreaking reality of refugee experience in all its complexity.
*Thank you to Netgalley for the arc in exchange for an honest review*