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Podcast: New Books in Biography & Memoir
Episode: Kawika Guillermo, "Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-Hurt Anti-Memoir" (Duke UP, 2023)
Description: Today I talked to Christopher Patterson about two books: the late Y-Dang Troeung's Landbridge [life in fragments] (Knopf Canada, 2023) and Christopher's own Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-Hurt Anti-Memoir (Duke UP, 2023), which was published under the name Kawika Guillermo.In Landbridge, Y-Dang Troeung meditates on her familyâs refugee history and the genocide that has marked the lives of millions of Cambodians like herself. She writes scathingly about how she and her family became the âfacesâ of Cambodian refugees in Canada, officially welcomed by then prime minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, her 11-month old face plastered on newspapers as a sign of Canadia...