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Lin, Brenda

 
9780814259887: Unraveling Threads: Essays on Inheritance (The Journal Non/Fiction Prize)
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ISBN 10: 081425988X ISBN 13: 9780814259887
Editorial: Mad Creek Books, 2026

Sinopsis

A memoir-in-essays that, in its exploration of language, family ties, and Taiwanese history, distills how the handmade holds memory, inheritance, and the work of caretaking.

“Tactile memory feels like it is the easiest to lose,” brenda Lin writes in Unraveling Threads. But in these exquisite essays, she demonstrates just how the tactile bolsters personal, familial, and cultural memory. From the remnant of a baby’s umbilical cord to the antique hand-embroidered baby carriers her mother collects, Lin shows us how the tactile and handmade connect parents and children, homeland and diaspora, and give texture to caregiving’s many forms. As Lin writes, the radical for thread forms the basis of Chinese characters for women’s work, for practice through repetition, for inheritance. Threads form the mesh in the stent that keeps her father’s heart working. And yuan, the red thread of fate, is the first word she translated for her future husband. When Lin returns to Taiwan after decades away, this time with her young family, the threads of creativity and caretaking become the warp and weft of the continual process of homecoming. These essays on motherhood, language, art, and diaspora will resonate with anyone who has experienced the process of returning to, or building, a home.

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brenda Lin is a writer, literary translator, and educator based in Taipei, Taiwan. She is the author of Wealth Ribbon: Taiwan Bound, America Bound. Her writing and translations have appeared in Fourth Genre, Asymptote, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.

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Editorial
Mad Creek Books
Año de publicación
2026
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ISBN 10 
081425988X
ISBN 13 
9780814259887
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Número de páginas
208
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