The gangster we are all looking for / Lê Thi Diem Thúy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lê, Thi Diem Thúy, 1972-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnamese American families--Fiction.

Vietnamese American families.

Vietnamese American children--Fiction.

Vietnamese American children.

Vietnamese Americans--Fiction.

Vietnamese Americans.

San Diego (Calif.)--Fiction.

San Diego (Calif.).

Refugees--Fiction.

Refugees.

Girls--Fiction.

Girls.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Coming of age.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

158 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

Advance reader's edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2003.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Suh-top!

Palm

The gangster we are all looking for

The bones of birds

Nu'ó'c.

OCLC:

937393021