"Fiction." . . "Vietnamese American children Fiction." . . "San Diego (Calif.)" . . "San Diego, Calif." . "FICTION / General" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "In 1978 six refugees-a girl, her father, and four \"uncles\"--Are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child's imagination, the world of itchy dresses and run-down apartments is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimate objects and waits for her mother to join her. But life loses none of its strangeness when the family is reunited. as the girl grows, her matter-of-fact innocence eddies increasingly around opaque and ghostly traumas: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland, the memory of a brother who drowned and, most inescapable, her father's hopeless rage for a father's order." . . . "Domestic fiction" . "In 1978 six refugees-a girl, her father, and four \"uncles\"--are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child's imagination, the world of itchy dresses and run-down apartments is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimate objects and waits for her mother to join her. But life loses none of its strangeness when the family is reunited. as the girl grows, her matter-of-fact innocence eddies increasingly around opaque and ghostly traumas: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland, the memory of a brother who drowned and, most inescapable, her father's hopeless rage for a father's order." . "Domestic fiction"@en . . . "The gangster we are all looking for : [a novel]" . "Electronic books" . "Electronic books"@en . . . . "The gangster we are all looking for" . "The gangster we are all looking for"@en . . . . . . "The Gangster we are looking for" . "The Gangster we are all looking for" . . . . "Fiction" . "Fiction"@en . . . "A young Vietnamese refugee, newly arrived in America with her father, struggles along with other family members to make sense of the past and adjust to life in the United States."@en . . "Das Weinen des Schmetterlings : Roman" . . "Coming of age" . "The gangster we are looking for" . . . . . . "Bildungsromans" . "Bildungsromans"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Belletristische Darstellung" . . . "Refugees Fiction." . . "San Diego <Calif.>" . . "Flüchtling." . . . . "Girls Fiction." . . "California" . . "Vietnamese American families Fiction." . . "Familie." . . "Vietnamese Americans Fiction." . . "Vietnam" . . "Vietnamesen." . .