Library to Host Debut Author Eric Nguyen
12/22/2021 • 2 years ago
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Cambridge Public Library will host Eric Nguyen, author of Things We Lost to the Water, in a virtual program on January 4, 2022, at 6 p.m.
Things We Lost to the Water is a captivating novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped. Their search for identity–as individuals and as a family–threatens to tear them apart, until disaster strikes the City they now call home, and they are suddenly forced to find a new way to come together and honor the ties that bind them.
Eric Nguyen earned an MFA in Creative Writing from McNeese State University in Louisiana. He has been awarded fellowships from Lambda Literary, Voices of Our Nation Arts (VONA), and the Tin House Writers Workshop. Nguyen is the editor in chief of diaCRITICS.org.
Things We Lost to the Water has been shortlisted for the Crook's Corner Book Prize for best debut novel set in the American South and an Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Millions, We Are Bookish, and Nerd Daily Most Anticipated Book of the Year. Things We Lost to the Water has been highlighted as one of the “Fifteen Books to Watch for” by The New York Times. The program is sponsored by the Cambridge Public Library Foundation.
Registration is required to participate in this virtual program.
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