Gangster We Are All Looking For

Name: Gangster We Are All Looking For
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ISBN: 9780375700026

ISBN-10: 0375700021

ISBN-13: 9780375700026

Edition: N/A

Authors: Thi Diem Thuy Le, Thi Diem Thuy Le

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This acclaimed novel reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through the knowing eyes of a child finding her place and voice in a new country. In 1978 six refugees—a girl, her father, and four “uncles”—are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child’s imagination, the world is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimate objects, and waits for her mother to join her. But life loses none of its strangeness when the family is reunited. As the girl grows, her matter-of-fact innocence eddies increasingly around opaque and ghostly traumas: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland, the memory of a…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/11/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.21" wide x 8.01" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English

lê thi diem thúy [pronounced LAY TEE YIM TWEE] was born in Vietnam and now lives in western Massachusetts.