Recalling the work of Gabriel Garci+a7a Ma+a7rquez, a debut novel by an Asian-American author follows a gay cook from his native, war-torn Laos to internment in Thailand to San Francisco, where he falls in love. 12,500 first printing....
Set in the 1970s, in the era of the Vietnam War and its volatile aftermath, Land of Smiles tells the story of a young Southeast Asian man's journey from a refugee camp in Thailand to a housing project in Oakland, California.The novel opens with a Lao...