Stories about the dreams and hardships of immigration: A young Vietnamese refugee suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, a woman's husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover, a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will. A brilliant short story collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Sympathizer".