| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xx, 243 pages : map ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Cheng Lok Chua -- Part I. Family -- The immigrants's son ; The mother ; Killing a chicken / Joseph O. Legaspi -- Christmas '95 / Isabelle Thuy Pelaud -- My mother is Bui Doi / Lan Duong -- This face / Joseph O. Legaspi -- Father's duties / Cuong H. Lam -- My Hmong father / Kay Vu-Lee -- The pilgrimage / Minh-Mai Hoang -- At 120 over 80 / Aurora Harris -- Wedlock / Vince Gotera -- Brother 2 / Lan Duong -- Presentacion Vega Gotico / M.G. Sorongon -- Reincarnate / LeAna B. Gloor -- Uncle died for his country / Hanh Hoang -- Relations / Mayli Vang -- Part II. Community -- Spell / M.G. Sorongon -- Generations of laundry / Ira Sukrungruang -- Wrestling / Jon Pineda -- Famine all around / Sophie Nguyen -- Keeping up with the Nguyens / Hanh Hoang -- Part III. Eating -- My war with slugs / Soul Choj Vang -- Floating Eden / Ruth Pe Palileo -- Legacy / Jora Trang -- Chilies and dried anchovies / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Mother is converting the church with eggrolls / Oliver de la Paz -- My father's Pho / Kim Ly Bui-Burton -- Presence / Anh Quynh Bui -- Rice / Aurora Harris -- Making marmalade / BeeBee Tan-Beck -- Part IV. Love and gender -- You bring out the Vietnamese woman in me / Anh Phuong-Nguyen -- Smoke / Chachoua Victoria Xiong -- Colloquial love / Anh Quynh Bui -- Finding touch : a personal essay / Noel Alumit -- A day at the A & P / Kay Vu-Lee -- Hmong women / Mayli Vang -- Part V. The different past -- Open hands and the man with one leg shorter / Pos Moua -- Passing at the canyon ; The old man by the road they go ; The people beneath a moon by the river ; The ritual before crossing the river / Pos Moua -- Reflected light / Hilary Tham -- The driver Conrado's penitent life / Eugene Gloria -- Part VI. Tilting the continent -- The family with three Madonnas / Oliver de la Paz -- The healing / Lan Duong -- Hilo / LeAna B. Gloor -- Mole on my foot / Aurora Harris -- Infected / Marianne Villanueva -- Rio Grande / U Sam Oeur -- Land of the big fruit / Toni Mesina -- Part VII. Returnings -- Gifts for my family / Jade Quang Huynh -- Ang Tunay na Lalaki receives a package from home / Nick Carbo -- The Terno / Aurora Harris -- Granddaughter / Fiona Cheong -- The maid / Eugene Gloria -- Part IX. Becoming American -- Expurgation / Elizabeth Gordon -- Waiting for orders / Geronimo G. Tagatac -- Sacrifice is the key to heaven ; New territory : a sestina / M.G. Sorongon -- Quiet letters / Pornsak Pichetshote -- It will happen in a car / Mahami Zubaidy -- Manny's climb / Vince Gotera -- Sports and other stuff / Anna Alves -- Opossums and thieving pelicans / Paulino Lim, Jr. -- Scavenging on Double Bluff ; Seaweeds / Shirley Geok-lin Lim. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Asian American authors.
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Asian Americans -- Literary collections.
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Southeast Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Lim, Shirley.
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Chua, Cheng Lok.
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| ISBN |
0898232066 |
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