Sigh, Gone

by Phuc tran

"In Sigh, Gone, Phuc Tran offers a searing, trenchant, and hilarious chronicle of adolescence. His memoir seethes with all the shame and rage, loneliness and longing borne from cultural dislocation; thrums with all the fears and half-truths, anti-triumphs, and confused desires of that vicious and necessary American journey we call 'assimilation'. With this book, Tran not only puts himself on the literary map: he rips the map to pieces and tapes it back together as he―forever the bookish young punk―sees fit. The result: a refugee story of the most modern kind, told entirely on the author's own terms." ―Jaed Coffin, author of Roughhouse Friday