Owner of a Lonely HeartFrom the award winning author of Stealing Buddhas Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement. At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. Beths mother stayedor was leftbehind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent less