000 01626pam 2200313 a 4504
001 43851403
003 OCoLC
005 20030116124012.0
008 000320s2000 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a00036720
020 $a0452281857
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dOrLoB-B$dOCoLC
043 $an-us-ca$aa-ls---
049 $aUMKC
050 00 $aPS3558.U5314$bL36 2000
082 00 $a813/.54$221
100 1 $aHuo, T. C.
245 10 $aLand of smiles /$cT.C. Huo.
260 $aNew York :$bPlume,$cc2000.
300 $avi, 215 p. ;$c21 cm.
520 1 $a"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 JACKET.
650 0 $aLaotian Americans$vFiction.
650 0 $aFathers and sons$vFiction.
650 0 $aVietnamese Conflict,
1961-1975$xRefugees$vFiction.
650 0 $aEmigration and immigration$vFiction.
650 0 $aImmigrants$vFiction.
651 0 $aCalifornia$vFiction.
655 7 $aDomestic fiction.$2lcsh.
655 7 $aBildungsromane.$2gsafd.
