The Diem Thúy, Lé Thi 1972- creator text Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans. nyu New York Alfred A. Knopf Distributed by Random House 2003 1st ed. monographic eng spa

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160 p. ; 20 cm. 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. Suh-top! -- Palm -- The gangster we are all looking for -- The bones of birds -- Nu'óc. Lé Thi Diem Thúy. Also issued online. n-us-ca Vietnamese American families Fiction Vietnamese American children Fiction Vietnamese Americans Fiction Refugees Fiction Girls Fiction Vietnamitas en Estados Unidos Ficción San Diego (Calif.) Fiction PS 3612 D561g 2003 813/.6 0375400184 9780375400186 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random054/2002033999.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random045/2002033999.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0413/2002033999.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random054/2002033999.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random045/2002033999.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0413/2002033999.html DLC 020817 20230410132706.0 spa