This month, the Zeda Book Club is reading Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong, a breathtaking debut poetry collection that pulses with vulnerability, memory, and quiet resilience.
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whiting Award, Vuong’s voice is delicate yet devastating, mapping the tender and traumatic across generations. Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a collection shaped by war, immigration, queerness, and the ache of love; each poem a small, luminous fragment of survival.With imagery that is intimate and expansive, Vuong writes about his Vietnamese-American heritage, the silence between fathers and sons, the violence of history, and the healing found in language. His lines feel like open wounds and soft prayers, echoing with the intimacy of Tracey K. Smith and the lyrical depth of Pablo Neruda.
Let’s read and reflect together on migration, desire, and the power of poetry to hold what history tries to erase.Zeda Book Club is open to women to join. We café hop and read a new book every month. We meet on the first Sunday of each month in Nairobi. Join the group here. Happy reading!
