02357cam a2200481 a 4500 86014 86014 BJBSDDR 20230410132706.0 ta 020817s2003 nyu 000 1 eng 0375400184 9780375400186 NZ1 7148140 AU@ 000024049180 (OCoLC)ocm50510869 (OCoLC)50510869 (OCoLC)52732722 DLC DLC spa spa n-us-ca GRAL PS 3612 D561g 2003 813/.6 21 Diem Thúy, Lé Thi , 1972- The gangster we are all looking for / Lé Thi Diem Thúy. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2003. 160 p. ; 20 cm. Suh-top! -- Palm -- The gangster we are all looking for -- The bones of birds -- Nu'óc. 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 of itchy dresses and run-down apartments 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 brother who drowned and, most inescapable, her father's hopeless rage for a father's order. Also issued online. Vietnamese American families Fiction. Vietnamese American children Fiction. Vietnamese Americans Fiction. Refugees Fiction. Girls Fiction. Vietnamitas en Estados Unidos Ficción 6057 San Diego (Calif.) Fiction. Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans. gsafd Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random054/2002033999.html Sample text http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random045/2002033999.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0413/2002033999.html lcc BK 0 0 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 0 PS 3612 D561g 2003 00000069354 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 BK