'Sigh, Gone' Is A Refugee's Chaotic Memoir Of Displacement And Belonging

'That was my inheritance,' writes Phuc Tran, 'the anxiety of being stared at.' His memoir 'Sigh, Gone' chronicles his journey, from Vietnam War refugee to growing up in the punk rock era of America — and how great music and books shaped and saved him.

. Randomly taking up skateboarding in eighth grade leads Tran into the sweaty outlaw community of local skatepunks.

The scene itself is familiar — a hardworking immigrant father angered by a poor showing on a child's report card — but the raw intensity of it is what's shocking, especially given the comic tone of so much of this memoir. For weeks after, Tran couch surfs or sleeps in friend's closets.

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