Time Is a Mother Up to Age 8 Glancing down into the water

Glancing down into the water

As the book opens in 2001

from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington D

When she meets a wealthy white Canadian family vacationing on the island

Swift Fox doesn’t understand what that means

Time Is a Mother Up to Age 8 Glancing down into the waterThe highly anticipated collection of poems from the award winning writer Ocean VuongHow else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mothers death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel