Grass Roof, Tin Roof

Grass Roof, Tin Roof - Paperback

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Grass Roof, Tin Roof - Paperback

Grass Roof, Tin Roof - Paperback

by Dao Strom
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by Dao Strom (Author)

In this stunning novel about a Vietnamese family resettling in the isolation of California gold country, Dao Strom investigates the myth of westward progress and the consequences of cultural displacement.

Told from multiple perspectives and interwoven with the intimate reflections of a middle child, 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. 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 a beautiful work of profundity and empathy, powerful emotion and rare insight.
Number of Pages: 240
Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: January 07, 2003
ISBN9780618145591
Author Dao Strom
PublisherHarper Perennial
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2003
LanguageENG- English
Pages240
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Dao Strom is the author of You Will Always Be Someone from Somewhere Else; We Were Meant to Be a Gentle People; Grass Roof, Tin Roof; and The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys. She has received awards from the Creative Capital Foundation, RACC, the NEA, and others. She was born in Vietnam, grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California, and is now based in Portland, Oregon. Find out more at daostrom.com.

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