From Ellen LaFleche, North Street Book Prize -- Winner, First Prize for Literary Fiction:
...The ghost of Hoang Trong Phu serves as a brilliant literary device. The book successfully straddles fiction and memoir; there is a haunting magical realism to the writing that creates a dual sense of reality/unreality. This heightens the tension and evokes strong emotions in the reader. Not only did I believe in the ghost, but I cared about him as he quietly did the work of self-healing, contemplating and processing the traumas he endured during the war, and following the events of his children...
From the Editor of Anchorless:
[…] Anchorless is a powerful moving manuscript. The story is both inspirational and heartbreaking.
Telling the story from the perspective of the ghost of the author’s father is impactful and haunting.
[…] The author’s narrative voice is very strong, with poetic phrasing that captures both the physical and emotional moments very clearly and evocatively.
“Your eyes hold hidden tears, and your clothes dripped with the burden of sadness.”
“The sound of the wave meeting the sand on this island expressed the regret for mistakes that could not be undone. The sound of the wave exposed sorrow which could never be cured. I named this island the regretful lands with never-ending unhappiness.”
[…] It is heartbreaking and paints a very vivid picture, describing sand and waves that his spirit can never physically touch…
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...The ghost of Hoang Trong Phu serves as a brilliant literary device. The book successfully straddles fiction and memoir; there is a haunting magical realism to the writing that creates a dual sense of reality/unreality. This heightens the tension and evokes strong emotions in the reader. Not only did I believe in the ghost, but I cared about him as he quietly did the work of self-healing, contemplating and processing the traumas he endured during the war, and following the events of his children...
From the Editor of Anchorless:
[…] Anchorless is a powerful moving manuscript. The story is both inspirational and heartbreaking.
Telling the story from the perspective of the ghost of the author’s father is impactful and haunting.
[…] The author’s narrative voice is very strong, with poetic phrasing that captures both the physical and emotional moments very clearly and evocatively.
“Your eyes hold hidden tears, and your clothes dripped with the burden of sadness.”
“The sound of the wave meeting the sand on this island expressed the regret for mistakes that could not be undone. The sound of the wave exposed sorrow which could never be cured. I named this island the regretful lands with never-ending unhappiness.”
[…] It is heartbreaking and paints a very vivid picture, describing sand and waves that his spirit can never physically touch…
More review from Amazon.com and Amazon.ca are captured below....