Land of smiles T. C. Huo
Publisher: New York : Plume, c2000.
ISBN: 0452281857
DDC: 813.54
LCC: PS3558
Summary:
"Boontakorn is fourteen when he begins has flight to freedom by
swimming across the Mekong River to Thailand. Reunited with his
father in a refugee camp there, he is suspended between the past and
present, between memories of his mother and sister - who did not
survive their journey - and the secret social order of the
overcrowded camp, where matchmakers cluck over his father and try to
find a wife to cook for him. Eventually, Boontakorn and his father
make their way to America - to California - where they depend on the
temporary kindness of relatives and friends, and where Boontakorn
must make sense of such dazzling and puzzling Western phenomena as
Superman, Saturday Night Fever, and the American high school."--BOOK
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