Names for Light
Myint, Thirii Myo Kyaw
Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a lyrical meditation on family, place, and inheritanceNames for Light traverses time and memory to weigh three generations of a family's history against a painful inheritance of postcolonial violence and racism. In spare, lyric paragraphs framed by white space, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint explores home, belonging, and identity by revisiting the cities in which her parents and grandparents lived. As she ...
