num_pages: 209
description: From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration.
language: English
title: The Refugees
publisher: Grove Press