A Vietnamese family flees its war-torn home and resettles in California, in a novel that offers a "brilliant exploration of exile, loss, and identity" (Robert Olen Butler). Told from multiple perspectives and spanning several decad...
"The book is informed by the Vietnamese immigrations of the nineteenâ€"seventies but is filled with social observation of contemporary middleâ€"class culture and indie sensibility . . . Quietly beautiful, Strom's stories are hip without being ironic....