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 decades, Gras...
"The book is informed by the Vietnamese immigrations of the nineteen"seventies but is filled with social observation of contemporary middle"class culture and indie sensibility . . . Quietly beautiful, Strom's stories are hip without being ironic....