Landbridge

<p><b>One woman's heart-breaking life-affirming memoir of loss survival bearing witness and a legacy of love</b></p><p><br><b>'<i>Landbridge</i> has forever altered what I know how I love and what I hope' Madeleine Thien author of <i>Do Not Say We Have Nothing</i></b> <b><br> 'A masterpiece to console and guide generations to come' Alice Pung author of <i>Unpolished Gem</i></b><br>Born in and named after Thailand's Khao-I-Dang refugee camp Y-Dang Troeung was - aged one - the last of 60000 Cambodian refugees admitted to Canada fleeing her homeland in the aftermath of Pol Pot's brutal Khmer Rouge regime. In Canada Y-Dang became a literal poster child for the benevolence of the Canadian refugee project - and implicitly the unknowable horrors of the place she had escaped.<br>In <i>Landbridge</i> a family and personal memoir of astonishing power Y-Dang grapples with a life lived in the shadow of pre-constructed narratives. She considers the transactional relationship between a host country and its refugees; she delves into the contradictions between ethnic regional and national identities; and she writes to her young son Kai with the promise that this family legacy is passed down with love at its core.<br><br>Written in fragmentary chapters each with the vivid light of a single candle in a pitch-black room <i>Landbridge</i> is a courageous piece of life writing the story of a family and a bold ground-breaking intervention in the way trauma and migration are told. <br></p>