Becoming Ghost

Name: Becoming Ghost
Brand: Simon & Schuster NZ
SKU: 9781668088920
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Poetry

By Cathy Linh Che

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2025 National Book Award Finalist Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Finalist 2026 APALA Literature Awards - Asian American Poetry Winner Ms. Magazine's Best Poetry of 2024 and 2025 Electric Literature's Best Poetry Collections, 2025 NPR's Books We Love 2025 2026 ALA RUSA Notable Poetry List The long-awaited sophomore... Read More

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"The long-awaited sophomore poetry collection by award-winning writer Cathy Linh Che, on familial estrangement, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now"--

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2025 National Book Award Finalist
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Finalist

2026 APALA Literature Awards - Asian American Poetry Winner
Ms. Magazine's Best Poetry of 2024 and 2025
Electric Literature's Best Poetry Collections, 2025
NPR's Books We Love 2025
2026 ALA RUSA Notable Poetry List

The long-awaited sophomore poetry collection by award-winning writer Cathy Linh Che, on familial estrangement, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now.

The follow-up to her acclaimed poetry debut Split, Becoming Ghost documents Cathy Linh Che's parents' experiences as refugees who escaped the Vietnam War and then were cast as extras in Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now, placing them at the margins of their own story. The poetry collection uses persona, speculation, and the golden shovel form as a means of moving Vietnamese voices from the periphery to the center. The speaker's disownment raises questions about the challenges of using parents as poetic subjects, telling familial stories to a broader public, and the meaning of forgiveness.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781668088920

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 April 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 136g

Pages: 128

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Arts & Culture Cathy Linh Che Education & Reference Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Split, winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies, An Asian American A to Z: A Children's Guide to Our History, and Becoming Ghost. Her writing has been published in The New Republic, The Nation, and McSweeney's and she has received awards from MacDowell, Bread Loaf, Tin House, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She currently lives in New York City.