Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will. A collection of perfectly formed stories from the author of the award-winning novel "The Sympathizer".