Names for Light: A Family History Insight_Whitesale_Dec35 the trees of the boreal

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Set in the easternmost region of Norway

* * Songs Included * Ain't Misbehavin'* All the Way* Bali Ha'i* Be Careful

and accessible for children than ever

Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction

Names for Light: A Family History Insight_Whitesale_Dec35 the trees of the borealWinner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a lyrical meditation on family, place, and inheritance Names for Light traverses time and memory to weigh three generations of a familys history against a painful inheritance of postcolonial violence and racism. In spare, lyric paragraphs framed by white space, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint explores home, belonging, and identity by revisiting the cities in which her parents and grandparents lived. As she makes