“I can actually integrate and I feel like I have things to say and a story to tell. “I don’t have to compartmentalize and hide parts of myself,” he says. When Tran gave his TEDx talk, it provided him an opportunity to include the many facets of his identity, and that proved to be empowering. If this is the talk of my life, if I’m never going to have an audience or a platform this big, I might as well go for it.” “I think that they were just trying to impress upon me how important the talk was. “As I was preparing for the TEDx talk, one of the refrains that my coach and TEDx organizers kept using was that this is a talk of your life,” says Tran during a phone interview.
The longtime Latin teacher and tattoo artist discussed grammar and meaning, but he also told the story of his life: What would have happened if he hadn’t started to cry that night in 1975 when his family decided to escape Saigon? While Tran’s new memoir “Sigh, Gone” explores his subsequent life as an American-raised Gen X kid steeped in pop culture, the book’s roots come from a TEDx talk that Tran gave in 2012. It was a fateful decision that first bus exploded and everyone on board died. When his family left Saigon for the United States, Phuc Tran, then an infant, cried so much that his family had to exit the bus they’d intended to take and wait for another one.
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