![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The images convey that Bui’s character has a chance to peel back the layers of her father’s memory of decay and trauma. When I did, the stories poured forth with no beginning or end – anecdotes without shape, wounds beneath wounds” (Bui, 92-93). It took a long time to ask the right questions. She first explores her father’s childhood, which references to the layers of suffering starting at an early age, suggesting that “to understand how my father became the way he was, I had to learn what happened to him as a little boy. The character takes the position in documenting and digesting the parents’ experiences in which the author reveals the importance of looking at their journey in reverse, meaning that generational trauma has a beginning (Bùi, 40). ![]()
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