Short girls
By: Bich Minh Nguyen
Publisher: Penguin Fig Tree
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781905490400
Subjects: Vietnamese American women; Fiction; Vietnamese Americans; Domestic fiction
Description: Linny and Van Luong are two second-generation Vietnamese immigrant sisters from the American Midwest. Linny, the youngest, is pretty and popular but trapped in a cycle of dead-end jobs and hopeless affairs. Van, plain and socially awkward, is an overachieving immigration lawyer with a seemingly picture-perfect marriage. When their father decides to take the oath for American citizenship in order to compete in an American Idol-style reality show, Linny and Van Luong return to their childhood home to plan a party to celebrate the decision that took thirty years to make. And there they realize that they are not so different from each other after all ...