Grass Roof, Tin Roof
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"Told from multiple perspectives and interwoven with the intimate reflections of a middle child, Grass Roof, Tin Roof begins with the story of Tran, a Vietnamese writer facing government persecution, who flees her homeland during the exodus of 1975 and brings her two children to the West. Here she marries a man who has survived a different war. He promises understanding and guidance, but the psychic consequences of his past soon hinder his relationships with the family.
The children, for whom war is now a distant shadow, struggle to understand the world around them on their own terms."--BOOK JACKET.
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It was so good! Strom so poignantly captures the struggles of migrating to a completely new world, and the consequences of cultural loss. Each character is written so beautifully, showing their individual strengths, weaknesses, and the difficult interpersonal relationships which they hold so dearly and yet seem so willing to toss away.
Grass Roof, Tin Roof felt very much like a memoir that was somehow written by five individual characters. I would love to read multiple entire series devoted to each one–Hus's especially, as I felt there was a substantial part of his life that we completely missed on. But maybe that's just due to him having given up his past a long, long time ago.
I'd definitely love to reread this novel again. Strom's style of writing and conveying her thoughts as living, breathing things has also served as a strong influence for my own thinking, and my own writing. <3