{"id":47120,"date":"2020-08-03T11:12:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T15:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=47120"},"modified":"2020-07-09T22:44:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T02:44:30","slug":"sigh-gone-a-misfits-memoir-of-great-books-punk-rock-and-the-fight-to-fit-in-by-phuc-tran-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/sigh-gone-a-misfits-memoir-of-great-books-punk-rock-and-the-fight-to-fit-in-by-phuc-tran-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigh, Gone: A Misfit\u2019s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In by Phuc Tran [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46931\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/Sigh-Gone-Phuc-Tran-BookDragon-526x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/Sigh-Gone-Phuc-Tran-BookDragon-526x800.jpg 526w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/Sigh-Gone-Phuc-Tran-BookDragon.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat you might miss if you opt for the audiobook is a rather unexpected table of contents page, on which every chapter title is a (western) literary classic, from <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>The Iliad.\u00a0<\/em>Books, indeed, guide debut author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phucskywalker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Phuc Tran<\/a>\u2019s life, especially as a Vietnamese American teenager desperate to feel he belongs.<\/p>\n<p>Great works aside, going aural is your recommended medium because Tran also makes his narrating debut \u2013 prefaced by an actual drumroll, yes! \u2013 with energy, empathy, and plenty of curse words, as he shares his no-holds-barred coming-of-age journey in small-town Carlisle, Pennsylvania: \u201cPoorly read. Very white. Collar blue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arriving as a 2-year-old refugee in 1975 with his parents, grandparents, and other extended family \u2013 his younger brother Louis would be born a year later \u2013 Tran grew into an awkward child, realizing early \u201c[w]e <em>weren\u2019t\u00a0<\/em>like everybody else.\u201d He spent 11 years \u201cclawing [his] way to acceptance,\u201d enduring bullying at school, emotional and physical abuse at home. To survive, he \u201ctried to erase [his] otherness, [his] Asianness, with an assimilation \u2013 an Americanization\u201d that flaunted academic excellence and \u201cOperation Look Punk\u201d (\u201cone way to show you fit in? By <em>not<\/em> fitting in\u201d). Immersing himself in great literature in high school provides a \u201cconnective and humanizing resonance\u201d &#8230; something his own first book manages to achieve here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Sigh-Gone-A-Misfit-s-Memoir-of-Great-Books-Punk-Rock-and-the-Fight-to-Fit-In-\/pid=9736387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, July 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW What you might miss if you opt for the audiobook is a rather unexpected table of contents page, on which every chapter title is a (western) literary classic, from The Picture of Dorian Gray\u00a0to\u00a0The Iliad.\u00a0Books, indeed, guide debut author Phuc Tran\u2019s life, especially&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,81,6535,137,140,31],"tags":[83,6608,6668,74,58,10,189,11,51,25,39,9189,29,79,9188],"class_list":["post-47120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-audio","category-repost","category-southeast-asian-american","category-vietnamese-american","category-young-adult-readers","tag-assimilation","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-bullying","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-father-son-relationship","tag-friendship","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-phuc-tran","tag-race-racism","tag-school-challenges","tag-sigh-gone"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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