The author describes his close relationship to two water buffalo that were part of his family when he was growing up in a village in the central highlands of Vietnam.
A twelve-year-old Vietnamese boy relates his experiences as he tries to adjust to his new life in the United States with his mother and American marine stepfather.
Shunned and mistreated because of her mixed heritage and determined to avoid an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City with the hope that she and the boy she loves will be able to go to the United States to find her…
With the help of her grandmother and the first snow she has ever seen, a little Vietnamese girl begins to understand how death can be accepted as a natural part of life.
When a Vietnamese boy breaks his family's Gia Truyen, a teapot which houses May Man, the good spirit, he tries to repair the damage in order to keep away evil spirits and bad fortune.