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Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen (2009, Hardcover) 
Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen (2009, Hardcover)

 
Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen (2009, Hardcover)

Author: Bich Minh Nguyen
Publisher: Viking Pr
Publication Date: 2009-07-23
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0670020818
ISBN-13: 9780670020812
Product ID: EPID71710027
Description: Van and Linny Luong, a pair of estranged Vietnamese-American sisters, return home for their father's citizenship ceremony and find that the Asian heritage they have been actively ignoring for their whole lives has a stronger hold on them...
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Van and Linny Luong, a pair of estranged Vietnamese-American sisters, return home for their father's citizenship ceremony and find that the Asian heritage they have been actively ignoring for their whole lives has a stronger hold on them than they imagined. The sisters have always seemed to be polar opposites of one another, but they find themselves equally alone after a pair of romantic break-ups. Their father, who obsessively invents products designed specifically for short people, convinces them to help him jumpstart his entrepreneurial career, but his ambitions are hindered by the constant family bickering. Eventually, all three learn that, just as their past mistakes are inherently tied together, their future successes must be as well, and they decide to build new lives on the old identities they had forgotten.

Details
Publication Date:2009-07-23

Size
Length:292 pages
Height:8.5 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:15.2 oz

Publisher's Note
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 in this novel from the PEN/Jerard Fund Award-winning author. 30,000 first printing.

Industry Reviews
"More sad than funny, more real than lightweight, Nguyen's story offers its characters not revenge, redemption or even success, but acceptance. Even in the country of tall people, short will have to be good enough."
(07/24/2009)

"[W]hat SHORT GIRLS lacks in breadth, it makes up in cautious detail, particularly in depicting the outsize ambition of Luong's all-American dream....Plucky Mr. Luong, a defiant world away from the stranded, strangled parents of Jhumpa Lahiri or Amy Tan, gives [the book] its drive and sets it apart from other intergenerational novels."
(08/13/2009)

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