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A review by julesjb
Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In by Phuc Tran
5.0
This book was incredible. Sigh, Gone is a piece of nonfiction that reads like fiction. The writing is fluid and the voice of Phuc Tran is captivating and easy to relate to. Through his memoir, we follow Phuc, from his childhood to his high-school graduation, a Vietnamiese kid that fled with his family to the US, how he desperately tried to fit in and how he felt alienated from his own family.
I love how he assimilated his own life with literature works such as The Scarlet Letter or Pygmalion. The writing was inspiring, emotional but also terribly funny. Some parts were painful to read, mainly the ones where Phuc talked about his relationship with his father.
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I love how he assimilated his own life with literature works such as The Scarlet Letter or Pygmalion. The writing was inspiring, emotional but also terribly funny. Some parts were painful to read, mainly the ones where Phuc talked about his relationship with his father.
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