The Quiet Place Book Club: ‘Time is a Mother’ by Ocean Vuong

Join us for the April meeting of The Quiet Place Book Club, where we will discuss Time is a Mother (Penguin, 2022) by Ocean Vuong.

Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with personal loss, the meaning of family and the value of joy in a perennially fractured American spirit.

"My old man/ & I, the Ford big enough for us to never/ touch. & maybe I meant to/ make the hairpin turn/ too hard. & the thing flipped/ like a new law, going 80. Maybe/ I wanted, at last, to feel him/ against me — & it worked."

You can purchase a copy of Time is a Mother from Fox Lane Books.

Please register in advance for this meeting. Everyone is welcome!

Email: amk565@york.ac.uk / kw1408@york.ac.uk