Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Le, Thi Diem Thuy |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 5/11/2004 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
The highly acclaimed novel that reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through theknowing eyes of a child finding her place and voice in a new country.
“A brilliant evocation of human sorrow and desire…. Heartbreaking and exhilarating.” —
The New York Times Book Review
In 1978six refugees—a girl, her father, and four “uncles”—are pulled from the sea to begina new life in San Diego. In the child’s imagination, the world is transmuted intoan unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimateobjects, and waits for her mother to join her. But life loses none of its strangenesswhen the family is reunited. As the girl grows, her matter-of-fact innocence eddiesincreasingly around opaque and ghostly traumas: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland,the memory of a brother who drowned and, most inescapable, her father’s hopelessrage.
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