{"product_id":"9781935439271","title":"Quiet As They Come","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Heartbreaking tales of ordinary people lost between the extraordinary circumstances of history. Bitter and beautiful all at once.\"—\u003cb\u003eSandra Cisneros\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We call it naturalization, but these bright, authentic, well-made stories both personalize and illuminate just how unnatural the first twenty years in America felt for thousands of Vietnamese families who fled to San Francisco to escape the Vietnam War. Angie Chau writes with humor, intensity and forgiveness about lives full of danger, insult, momentary reprieve, unending tenacity and undying hope.\"—\u003cb\u003ePam Houston\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eQuiet As They Come\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautifully rendered, intimate, and dramatic story of family and country. Each character is drawn with such honesty and generosity, such insight and imagination. Angie Chau has impressed and enthralled me and I was very sorry to come to the last page.\"—\u003cb\u003eKaren Joy Fowler\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eQuiet As They Come\u003c\/i\u003e announces the arrival of an astonishing literary talent with a great deal to say about the intricacies of family life, coming of age, emigration, and—above and—above all—the treasures buried in the human heart.”—\u003cb\u003eCarolina De Robertis\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuiet As They Come\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautiful and at times brutal portrait of a people caught between two cultures. Set in San Francisco from the 1980s to the present day, this debut collection explores the lives of several families of Vietnamese immigrants as they struggle to adjust to life in their new country, often haunted by the memories and customs of their old lives in Vietnam. While some are able to survive and assimilate, others are crushed by the promise of the \"American Dream.\" No matter their fate, you will never be able to forget the people you meet in this remarkable collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAngie Chau \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Vietnam and has since lived on three continents and an island. She graduated with a master's degree in creative writing from the University of California, Davis where she also taught undergraduate fiction and was the fiction editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Greenbelt Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been awarded a Hedgebrook Residency and a Macondo Foundation Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eIndiana Review, Santa Clara Review, Slant, \u003c\/i\u003eand the anthology \u003ci\u003eCheers to Muses\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2009, she won the UC Davis Maurice Prize in Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ig Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141431738608,"sku":"9781935439271","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935439271_p0.jpg?v=1763655847","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935439271","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}