TY  - BOOK
AU  - Diem Thúy,Lé Thi
TI  - The gangster we are all looking for
SN  - 0375400184
AV  - PS 3612  D561g 2003
U1  - 813/.6 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
KW  - Vietnamese American families
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Vietnamese American children
KW  - Vietnamese Americans
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Girls
KW  - Vietnamitas en Estados Unidos
KW  - Ficción
KW  - San Diego (Calif.)
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Suh-top! -- Palm -- The gangster we are all looking for -- The bones of birds -- Nu'óc; Also issued online
N2  - 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.
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random054/2002033999.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random045/2002033999.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0413/2002033999.html
ER  -