Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir

"Owner of a Lonely Heart offers indelible insights on biological and surrogate motherhood, informed by the author’s upbringing in a chaotic yet emotionally repressed family led by a Vietnamese refugee father and a second-generation Mexican stepmother in white-centric Grand Rapids, Mich. Referencing yet subverting the swaggering lyrics of a 1983 Yes song, Beth Nguyen’s memoir, a taut, contemplative follow-up to Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, reconciles the apparent gaps in her family history with the need for sufficient space and time to redefine the past."