Unraveling Threads: Essays on Inheritance by Lin, Brenda
Unraveling Threads: Essays on Inheritance by Lin, Brenda

Unraveling Threads: Essays on Inheritance

A memoir-in-essays that, in its exploration of language, family ties, and Taiwanese history, distills how the handmade...
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Author: Brenda Lin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Unraveling Threads: Essays on Inheritance by Lin, Brenda

Unraveling Threads: Essays on Inheritance

$25.54
Unraveling Threads: Essays on Inheritance by Lin, Brenda

Unraveling Threads: Essays on Inheritance

$25.54
Author: Brenda Lin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
A memoir-in-essays that, in its exploration of language, family ties, and Taiwanese history, distills how the handmade holds memory, inheritance, and the work of caretaking.

"Tactile memory feels like it is the easiest to lose," brenda Lin writes in Unraveling Threads. But in these exquisite essays, she demonstrates just how the tactile bolsters personal, familial, and cultural memory. From the remnant of a baby's umbilical cord to the antique hand-embroidered baby carriers her mother collects, Lin shows us how the tactile and handmade connect parents and children, homeland and diaspora, and give texture to caregiving's many forms. As Lin writes, the radical for thread forms the basis of Chinese characters for women's work, for practice through repetition, for inheritance. Threads form the mesh in the stent that keeps her father's heart working. And yuan, the red thread of fate, is the first word she translated for her future husband. When Lin returns to Taiwan after decades away, this time with her young family, the threads of creativity and caretaking become the warp and weft of the continual process of homecoming. These essays on motherhood, language, art, and diaspora will resonate with anyone who has experienced the process of returning to, or building, a home.

Author: Brenda Lin
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Published: 08/12/2026
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9780814259887

About the Author
brenda Lin is a writer, literary translator, and educator based in Taipei, Taiwan. She is the author of Wealth Ribbon: Taiwan Bound, America Bound. Her writing and translations have appeared in Fourth Genre, Asymptote, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.


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