The Gangster We Are All Looking For

The Gangster We Are All Looking For

This acclaimed novel reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through the knowing eyes of a child finding her place and voice in a new country.

In 1978 six refugeesâ‚¬"a girl, her father, and four â‚¬Å“unclesâ‚¬Ââ‚¬"are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the childâ‚¬s imagination, the world 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 fatherâ‚¬s hopeless rage.
Country USA
Brand Anchor Books
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780375700026
Color Cream
ReleaseDate 2004-05-11
UnitCount 1
UPCs 884681676668
EANs 9780375700026

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