Beth Nguyen in TIME Magazine: The Comfort of a Lunar New Year in Isolation

Professor of English shares her memories of celebrating the Vietnamese holiday as a child.

“Lunar New Year might bring to mind festivals and fireworks, but I’ve always associated it with a kind of isolation. Long before the pandemic, long before the rest of America learned about sriracha and pho, I grew up in a Vietnamese refugee family in a mostly white town in Michigan…”

Read the full article at: https://time.com/5934907/lunar-new-year-covid-19/