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Tran's debut offers an intimate look at her upbringing and family life, from immigrating to New York City from rural Vietnam as a young child, through her adolescence and early adulthood. Her memoir reads as a therapeutic catharsis, processing the traumas of poverty, a sense of not quite fitting in, the limitations of growing up as a girl, and the unpredictably volatile outbursts of a father dealin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More