Grass Roof, Tin Roof: A Novel
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- Synopsis
- A Vietnamese family flees its war-torn home and resettles in California, in a novel that offers a &“brilliant exploration of exile, loss, and identity&” (Robert Olen Butler). Told from multiple perspectives and spanning several decades, Grass Roof, Tin Roof begins with the story of Tran, a Vietnamese writer facing government persecution, who flees her homeland during the exodus of 1975 and brings her two children to the West. Here, she marries a Danish American man who has survived a different war. He promises understanding and guidance—but the psychic consequences of his past soon hinder his relationships with the family, as the children, for whom the war is now a distant shadow, struggle to understand the world around them on their own terms. In delicate, innovative prose, Strom&’s characters experience the collision of cultures and the spiritual aftermath of war on the most visceral level. Grass Roof, Tin Roof is &“an affecting study on the slippery nature of home&” (Los Angeles Times). &“[Strom] explores the mysteries of loss, culture and identity, with skill, poignancy and imagination.&” —Detroit Free Press
- Copyright:
- 2003
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 240 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780547972831
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780618145591
- Publisher:
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Date of Addition:
- 12/17/24
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- status in your country.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.