TY - BOOK AU - Chang,Victoria TI - Dear memory: letters on writing, silence, and grief SN - 9781571313928 PY - 2021/// CY - Minneapolis, Minnesota PB - Milkweed Editions KW - Chang, Victoria, KW - Memory KW - Essays KW - lcgft KW - Personal correspondence N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Dear mother -- Dear grandmother -- Dear silence -- Dear grandfather -- Dear D -- Dear mother -- Dear body -- Dear teacher -- Dear L -- Dear teacher -- Dear mother -- Dear C -- Dear teacher -- Dear T -- Dear G -- Dear teacher -- Dear daughters -- Dear teacher -- Dear sister -- Dear teacher -- Dear father -- Dear teacher -- Dear daughter -- Dear Ford Motor Company -- Dear daughter -- Dear father -- Dear B -- Dear father -- Dear Y -- Dear reader N2 - "From National Book Award-longlisted poet Victoria Chang, a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations"--; Chang's remembrances are contained in a collection of letters. They are founded in the fragments of stories her mother shared reluctantly, and the silences of her father, who first would not and then could not share more. The letters are sculpted from an archive of family relics: a marriage license, a letter, a visa petition, a photograph. And, just as often, they are built on the questions that can no longer be answered. -- adapted from jacket ER -