I found Kim Thuy's first novel, "Ru," superb in its stream-of-consciousness mosaic of shifting time and deepening insights, tracing a young Vietnamese girl's shift from war-torn past to complex Quebec present. Now in this new novel Thuy moves to even more emotional levels in a delicately render...
My own family was saved by Anh Phi. It was Anh Phi, teenage son of a friend of my parents, who found the pack of gold taels my father had flung from our third-floor balcony during the night. The day before, my parents had told me to pull on the bit of rope that ran alongside the corridor if one o...