Book Reviews
"An impressive debut...Maps the state of exile and its elusive geography of loss and hope." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Western readers are fortunate to have Cao contribute to the modest body of work that goes beyond wartime and reaches for Vietnam's lush heart" -Chicago Tribune
"With incredible lightness, balance, and elegance, Lan Cao crosses over an abyss of pain, loss, separation and exile, connecting on one level the opposite realities of Vietnam and North America, and on a deeper level the realities of the material world and the world of the spirits." -Isabel Allende
"Lyrical and subtle writing." -Los Angeles Times
"Cao crafts a novel of eminent interest...Evocative in detail, and poignant in its portrayal of the plight of war refugees." -The Boston Globe
"This powerful and insightful book is a bona fide first both for its author and for American publishing, the initial novel about the war and its aftermath written by a Vietnamese American." -Seattle Post-Intelligencerbv gg
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