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Starred Review on May 1, 2015 | Fiction
A young, confused Vietnamese woman leaves her dying husband and native home as communists lay waste to her life. In a Malaysian camp with her young daughter, Hong meets Sonny, another refugee with a son, and together they form an alliance. Revealing her story in flashback fits and starts, Hong speaks in sparse, cryptic passages intermixed with longer, more clearly delineated chapters narrated by her second husband, Oakland police...Log In or Sign Up to Read More



