Papin Line - The Girl Before Her - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A coming - of - age tale of dislocation and inherited trauma from the acclaimed young French Vietnamese novelist French Vietnamese writer Line Papin's stunning English - language debut The Girl Before Her offers a window onto the existential anguish of displacement as experienced by a child on the cusp of becoming a woman. Uprooted without explanation from the sunshine and chaos of H N i at the age of ten the narrator finds herself adrift in the unfamiliar gray world of France and grappling with a deep sense of uncertainty about who she is and where she belongs. Lacking the words to express her growing sense of alienation she stops talking then eating. She is hospitalized and almost dies from anorexia. Part meditation part family history part message in a bottle to her younger selves Papin's lyrical work of autofiction explores what it takes to embrace one's multiracial transnational self by making peace with the generations of women who ve come before. The Girl Before Her is the first book to be published by Ink & Blood a new joint imprint from Kaya Press and the Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network (DVAN) which aims to bring Vietnamese literary voices from across the globe to English readers.
Title: The Girl Before Her
Author(s): Papin Line
Publisher: Kaya Press
Barcode: 9781885030832
Pages: 132 Pages
Publication Date: 8/15/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction