Land of Smiles
Title
Land of Smiles
Subject
Laotian Americans -- Fiction. Fathers and sons -- Fiction. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Refugees -- Fiction. Emigration and immigration -- Fiction. Immigrants -- Fiction. California -- Fiction.
Description
Boontakorn is fourteen when he begins his 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.
Creator
Huo, T.C.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Date
2000
Type
PS3558 .U5314 L36
Identifier
2003.500.423