A childhood in Bucharest. A father who could not be reached. A half-sister, Ana, who was the one clear line through everything. And, decades later, a life in Hanoi with a small bakery that carries her name.
This is a memoir built the way memory works — in pieces, out of sequence — turned patiently until the fragments lock into an image that was always there. Underneath it runs one question: what does it cost to be near people your whole life and never let yourself be seen, and what happens when you finally put it all down on the page?
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