Quiet As They Come Review
Posted by
Melind Brown
on 12/30/2012
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Labels:
amazon,
contemporary literature,
esl,
immigrant experience,
immigrant story,
memoir,
san francisco,
vietnam
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(More customer reviews)In tracking how a group of characters drift into mainstream American culture, Angie Chau has written a book that confluences elegantly with the currents of contemporary U.S. fiction. The book is both an endearing account of a becoming-American family's survival, and a nuanced report on the deracination and integration of Vietnamese individuals in a new place, namely the San Francisco bay area--with all the personal connections, emotional fragmentations, pop culture explosions, and social fissures that occur along the way...
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