![]() ![]() ![]() It starts with his first memory-figuring out, at 4 years old, how to translate his Vietnamese name into English and settling on “Phuc rhymes with Luke”-and ends with his graduation from high school. Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight To Fit In (Flatiron, April 28) chronicles his family’s escape from Vietnam, their settlement in rural Pennsylvania, and all the chaos that entailed. “I think it was the first time I had felt like I had an invitation to tell my story.” “The feedback from the talk was so affirming, and that planted the seed of ‘I think I want to sit down and write more about my life,’” says Tran, calling from his Maine home. That changed after his TEDx talk on the linguistic differences between English and Vietnamese, “Grammar, Identity, and The Dark Side of the Subjunctive,” attracted a lot of attention-from NPR, from YouTube viewers, and from Asian Americans thrilled to see a bit of their experience in the spotlight. But it never really occurred to the high school Latin teacher and tattooer from Maine to write one of his own. Phuc Tran has loved books as far back as he can remember. ![]()
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