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Join us for a calming evening of discussion where we will delve into what we loved and hated about our latest book club read. We will spill the tea while we sip our tea and coffee.
This month we will be discussing Eric Nguyen's "Things We Lost to the Water". You can find the material in our catalog here:
Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen
Things We Lost to the Water (2021) is Eric Nguyen’s debut novel. Categorized as a coming-of-age story, a saga, and domestic fiction, the novel is narrated from multiple perspectives and follows the lives and vastly different immigrant experiences of three characters as they move from Vietnam to New Orleans in the US and build new lives.
Eric Nguyen, an American-born child of Vietnamese immigrants, has an MFA in Creative Writing from McNeese State University in Louisiana, which inspired the New Orleans setting (To, Sydney Van. “‘Your Plans Are Never Going to Work’: An Interview With Eric Nguyen.” Chicago Review of Books, 14 May 2021), and has received fellowships from Voices of Our Nation Arts, Lambda Literary, and the Tin House Writers Workshop. In addition, Nguyen serves as the editor-in-chief of diaCRITICS.org, which “highlights art, literature, and stories from writers, artists, and culture-makers of the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora, on and from all shores” (“Mission.” DVAN, Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network). The novel explores several themes—Family Versus Self, Immigrant Experience Versus Identity, Fatherhood/Parental Influence, and Making/Finding a Home—as well as the symbolism of water, writing, language as identity, and the phone as a means of connection (or reconnection).
The Central Branch is in South Lake Charles and is the library system's main branch.
The location houses both the Central Branch and the library's administrative offices.
This location offers various seating locations throughout the building, public computers, laptops that can be checked out and used in the library, self-checkout stations, faxing, scanning, and printing services, study rooms, and several large sized community rooms.
