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Short girls : a novel

Sisters Van and Linny are short. But they couldn't be more different. Van's the overachiever - a high-flying lawyer with a pristine home and husband, until the husband walks out. Linny is fashionable, flighty, works for a catering firm called You Did It Dinners and has just been told by her married lover that he's sticking with his wife.

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  • "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..."
  • "Sisters Van and Linny are short. But they couldn't be more different. Van's the overachiever - a high-flying lawyer with a pristine home and husband, until the husband walks out. Linny is fashionable, flighty, works for a catering firm called You Did It Dinners and has just been told by her married lover that he's sticking with his wife."@en
  • "Als hun Vietnamese vader na decennia opteert voor de Amerikaanse nationaliteit blijken zijn twee volwassen dochters minder van elkaar te verschillen dan zij altijd dachten."
  • "Two estranged Vietnamese sisters, each wrestling with her own life, career, and romance, are reunited at their father's American citizenship party, and forge a new relationship."@en
  • "The authentic and compassionate first novel about two sisters from the author of the acclaimed memoir Stealing Buddha's Dinner Called "A writer to watch, a tremendous talent" by the Chicago Tribune, Bich Minh Nguyen makes her fiction debut with the deeply moving and entertaining story of two Vietnamese sisters. Aside from their petite stature, Van and Linny Luong couldn't be more different. Diligent, unassuming Van works as an immigration lawyer in the Michigan suburbs where she resides with her handsome, Chinese-American lawyer husband. Beautiful, fashionable Linny lives in Chicago and has drifted into an affair with a married man. When Van's picture-perfect marriage collapses and Linny finds herself grappling to escape her dead-end life, the long-estranged sisters are unable to confide in one another- until their eccentric inventor father calls them back home to the Vietnamese American community they fled long ago."@en
  • "Linny and Van Luong, two second-generation Vietnamese immigrant sisters from the American Midwest are locked into a relationship of mutual disdain: Linny is trapped in a cycle of dead-end jobs and hopeless affairs. Van, an immigration lawyer, has a seemingly perfect marriage. Their eccentric father is the inventor of the 'Luong Arm', a gadget helping short people reach objects in high places."
  • "Two estranged Vietnamese sisters, each wrestling with their own lives, careers, and romances, are reunited at their father's American citizenship party, and forge a new relationship."
  • "Linny and Van Luong are two second generation Vietnamese immigrant sisters from the American mid-West. 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. The sisters have been locked in a relationship of mutual disdain for as long as they can remember."
  • "Linny and Van Luong, two second-generation Vietnamese immigrant sisters from the American Midwest are locked into a relationship of mutual disdain: Linny is trapped in a cycle of dead-end jobs and hopeless affairs. Van, an immigration lawyer, has a seemingly perfect marriage. Their eccentric father is the inventor of the 'Luong Arm', a gadget helping short people reach objects in high places. He's finally taking American citizenship in order to compete in a TV reality show for inventors. And the sisters must return to their childhood home to plan a party to celebrate a decision that took thirty years to make ..."

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en

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