House of Sticks by Ly Tran [in Booklist]
17 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese American
In 1993, 3-year-old Ly Tran arrived in Queens with her parents and three older brothers from South Vietnam. Their new apartment was not the nhà là – “a house made of sticks and dried leaves” – that had been their former home; stability, however, was...