Ly Tran s memoir
The Three Little Pigs and the myth of the unassimilated other in Francois Truffaut s
The Wild Child (
L Enfant Sauvage), in its unsentimental yet deeply moving examination of filial bond, displacement, war trauma, and poverty.
Ostensibly an immigrant success story, Tran s narrative power lies in its nuanced celebration of filial devotion that withstands the enormous cost of the American dream.
The book s first chapter, Awake on the author s earliest memory of waking up in the arms of her mother in a refugee camp in Thailand represents the thematic arc of
House of Sticks. Tran s sensory cognizance of the blue tarpaulin tent cover, the pungent, creamy taste of eggs drenched in soy sauce that she shared with her family these constitute the corporeal recollections that Tran would need to reclaim in the future as part of her essential education, to offset her family s survival mode that often rendered the body invisible.
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