Pushed to shore
Subtitle: a novel
By: Kate Gadbow.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Louisville, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Vietnamese Americans -- Fiction.; Hmong Americans -- Fiction.; English teachers -- Fiction.; Women teachers -- Fiction.; Refugees -- Fiction.; Missoula (Mont.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In an essay written for his ESL class, a young student describes his flight from Vietnam at the age of twelve, in a fishing boat with three friends.

They were beaten by Thai pirates, fell faint with hunger and pain, until they were "pushed to the kind shore by a finger of God." The phrase evokes an overriding metaphor for this first novel by Kate Gadbow, in which a community of Vietnamese and Hmong refugees struggles to maintain balance between the world they fled and the one they are currently negotiating in Missoula, Montana.

Gadbow meshes the lives of these refugees with that of the book's narrator Janet Hunter, a teacher struggling to manage contemporary life, with a failed marriage and a string of disappointments haunting her own past."--BOOK JACKET.