Dimensions
130 x 197 x 13mm
'The Gangster We Are All Looking For' is an authentically original novel about remembering and forgetting, about home and family, and about trying to find a place - and voice - in a new world.
In 1978, six Vietnamese refugees were pulled from the sea just off California.
In San Diego, a little girl's matter-of-fact innocence masks the ghostly traumas that still haunt her: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland; the memory of a brother who drowned; the heartbreaking spectacle of her parents trying to make a new home, their struggle backlit by the memory of a forbidden love when they were young.
Thúy Lê has revealed a world of great beauty and enormous sorrows.
