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Readers
75/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
Date:
August 17, 2021
Traverses time and memory to weigh three generations of a familyâs history against a painful inheritance of postcolonial violence and racism.
What The Reviewers Say
Composed in compressed, laser-sharp interrogations of immigration and prejudice, colonialism and inheritance, Names for Light reads like poetry.
... uniquely structured.
... makes ample use of blank space, between paragraphs, strings of thought, scenes and events. When not used, what’s there is jumbled and scattered.
... questions linger over her narrative. Whom is she writing for? Is she trying to reveal or conceal? Is she deceiving herself or trying to deceive others? Is this an attempt to reconnect with a family that obsesses her, but from whom she seems estranged? The mystical beauty of her prose, which seems to speak to us in intermittent revelations, transports us elsewhere, but it is an unnamable place, a territory of lostness.
