The day she dies, Scarlett watches the ripple effect of her death on the lives of those she loved the most, especially her best friend, Evie, but when she sees Evie bravely embracing a future without her, Scarlett wonders if she would go back and alter the events that changed their lives forever.

"National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen's second poetry collection, a haunting of a family's past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers and daughters across generations. In Root Fractures, Diana Khoi Nguyen excavates the moments of rupture in a family: a mother who was forced underground after the Fall of Saigon, a father who engineered a new life in California as an immigrant, a brother who...