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“Eric Nguyen’s masterful debut novel Things We Lost to the Water is a deeply engaging, heart-rending look at a family of Vietnamese refugees struggling to survive and how the choices they make as individuals have ripple effects on each other.”
Things We Lost to the Water is the 2021 debut novel by American author Eric Nguyen. Synopsis. The novel is told from multiple perspectives between 1978 and 2005. Most of the story takes place in the lower income neighborhoods of New Orleans, Louisiana.
May 6, 2021 · Eric Nguyen's debut novel plays off a Vietnamese word that means both country and water, examining all the ways those two things affect a family of Vietnamese refugees who...
May 14, 2021 · May 14, 2021. Eric Nguyen’s debut novel Things We Lost to the Water is the story of a Vietnamese family that resettled in New Orleans after the Vietnam War. The novel is told from the perspectives of three characters: Hương, the mother, and her two sons, Tuấn and Ben.
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. This stunning debut is “vast in scale and ambition, while luscious and inviting … in its intimacy” (The New York Times Book Review).
May 4, 2021 · In Eric Nguyen’s debut, “Things We Lost to the Water,” Vietnamese refugees in a single household meet very different Americas.
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. He is the editor in chief of diaCRITICS.org. He lives in Washington, DC.
May 4, 2021 · Eric Nguyen. 3.76. 10,762 ratings1,320 reviews. When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam.
May 4, 2021 · “Eric Nguyen’s masterful debut novel Things We Lost to the Water is a deeply engaging, heart-rending look at a family of Vietnamese refugees struggling to survive and how the choices they make as individuals have ripple effects on each other.”
May 18, 2021 · Nguyen explores the nuances of a Vietnamese immigrant family through tender characterizations and relevant cultural and sociopolitical commentary. With poetically affecting beats, Nguyen reminds us that moving forward doesn’t signify the need to forget the past. Both are intimately entangled; we move on to remember.
