Topic: February 2005
Starborn Books of Wales now offers The Family Wound, written by St. Lawrence University Assistant Professor of English Ngoc Quang Huynh. Huynh, born in South Vietnam in 1957, attended Saigon University until he was thrown into a concentration camp for being a student. He overcame a year of torture and degradation while in prison, but eventually escaped and started a new life in the United States. The Family Wound recounts the horrors of war and the corruption and violence left in its wake through the perspective of a young Vietnamese woman, using touches of magical realism to tell the story.