Angie Chau debut Quiet As They Come [Publisher Ig Publishing. 2010. 199 pages] ial of her lifetime

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The afternoon of Saturday, 05/07/2011 at libraries ial Martin Luther ial King Jr. in downtown San Jose with the introduction of the three authors of Vietnamese Americans: Angie Chau, Andrew and Isabelle Thuy Lam Pelaud with about 60 people in attendance, with the young students, with particular quarter of 70, with people in the United States more than 35 years, new people she just arrived. Most of them are ethnic Vietnamese, only seven other ethnic chips. ial
Experience the life of many people there are also stories of two and author Angie Chau Lam, in the work are introduced. ial Particularly ial Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, American ial Vietnam-France, assistant professor of the University of San Francisco State University to talk about the book analyze, comment literary her US-Vietnam.
Angie Chau debut Quiet As They Come [Publisher Ig Publishing. 2010. 199 pages] ial of her lifetime from the early days of settlement in San Francisco, the new primary school for a return trip to Vietnam 17 years later.
Recording life stories, real and fictional phase, a group of refugees to the US late 1970s, rebuilding lives from an apartment in east Asians in San Francisco. The home has three bedrooms with 12 adult baby live. The story begins the reader feeling distinguish each character, as their lives were more disturbed over the incident, such as Elle, Michelle, Sophia, Marcel is the new name of the child in the family because ial they want hide past and resume.
4-7 Independence Day get together for the children bathing lake, having the look unfavorably by some people around, spraying equipment. Not enough money to go swimming, also can not afford snacks, pizza from a street corner chips child share the pie, watching the fireworks explode in the sky as the colorful candy lolly pop. A few years later, prior to the third level, and Independence Day, from the summit of Mt. Elle same school pals Tamalpais overlooking San Francisco Bay Area with fireworks exploding like colored beads sprinkled on the cake. Between the period of integration into a new life and culture. Men started a coffee-na maze ball. Mother shave for Elle purple wind back home that suspected cases of family violence. From apartment to a large apartment for families with tables and chairs and even a TV remote control was kept clean in the plastic wrap. Families with employment, mother Huong assembly of electronic components, announced Vietnam as the post office. In the flashback story is crossing distress, the only son dead, the past is better off in Vietnam in 1975 with his father as rector of the university. US willing to go through his lawn, do post, to work and accounting degree. Less talk, but he was angry when Vietnam to black Melvin colleagues teased Sam So 13-year-old daughter of his. After two to mediate.
Then he lost the Vietnam reason disagreements with colleagues. Events seem exaggerated. At home, while seeking a new job, he worried dishwashing, cleaning, vacuuming. Daughter to school, he found a job Vietnamese accounting, both home and family barbecue in the park to celebrate. The child does not know the date English, hours of Elle, Michelle, Sophia study well and did not lose anyone hanging. Vacation choose to play Mexico waters. Families watch as integration into new life.
Besides the family's story is interwoven Elle's feelings of her uncle, ial aunt used to live in the home you and your family used in the early days in America. Aunt Kim husband was in Vietnam. Out of sight, out of mind. In that situation blossoming ial love secret, Kim and Bao, coveted outbreak ial through hand knitting, ial through incense hair, kissed those lips. Then Kim's husband also was reunited Germany.
Seventeen years after the crossing, author and mother returned to Vietnam. Visiting family relatives at home. Notice of Elle she was known as the country with a new 2-year-old son had read Peak wall, called Little Buddha, Saint Giong same thing, is intended Saigon Giai Phong newspaper page of between about me. Author reasonable wrong name? As in Vietnam now have Saigon Giai Phong newspaper, as well as President Nguyen Van Thieu that the author ial called ial the prime minister. These pages are kept by his uncle. Until Elle visit. After the meal, the image of the child prodigy became the victims of the attacks of diarrhea.
Quiet As They Come with context smooth, rich in cultural personality, but readers can easily communicate between characters ial in a family group familiar with how authors develop different characters in each story .
While Angie Chau's work revolves around a family, East Eats West [Publisher Heyday. 2010. 169 pages] outside the family of Andrew Lam authors also spread to the community ial - the Vietnamese - and Asian ethnicities. This is the second work of Andrew Lam later Perfume Dreams.
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