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New York City Book Awards Hornblower Award Winner One of Vogue and NPRs Best Books of the Year This beautifully written masterclass in memoir ( Elle ) recounts a young girl s journey from war-torn Vietnam to Queens, New York, showcas[ing] the tremendous power we have to alter the fates of others, step into their lives and shift the odds in favor of greater opportunity ( Star Tribune , Minneapolis). Ly Tran is just a toddler in 1993 when she and her family immigrate from a small town along the Mekong river in Vietnam to a two-bedroom railroad apartment in Queens. Lys father, a former lieutenant in the South Vietnamese army, spent nearly a decade as a POW, and their resettlement is made possible through a humanitarian program run by the US government. Soon after they arrive, Ly joins her parents and three older brothers sewing ties and cummerbunds piece-meal on their living room floor to make ends meet. As they navigate this new landscape, Ly finds herself torn between two worlds. She knows she must honor her parents Buddhist faith and contribute to the family livelihood, working long hours at home and eventually as a manicurist alongside her mother at a nail salon in Brooklyn that

Author

Tran, Ly, 1989- author

Publisher

Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., Scribner

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501118814

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.5 / 5 (312 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14