Library: Washington University (St. Louis, MO)
Last Loaded: 09/02/2007
MARC Timestamp: 10/07/2000
Control Number Org.: OCLC DEDUP
Control Number: 43851403
000 01869pam 2200397 a 4500
001 43851403
003 OCLC DEDUP
003 DLC
003 DLC
005 20001007005329.7
008 000320s2000 nyu 000 f eng
010 $a00036720
020 $a0452281857
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$dOrLoB$dOrLoB-B
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050 00 $aPS3558.U5314$bL36 2000
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.
520 8 $aEventually, 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.
590 $aPurchased by the Carl Neureuther Endowed Book
Fund.
650 0 $aLaotian Americans$vFiction.
650 0 $aFathers and sons$vFiction.
650 0 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975$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.
791 2 $aCarl Neureuther Endowed Book Fund.$4donor.
910 $asw
902 $a001007AB0701
