The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys: Four Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781640092709)

"The book is informed by the Vietnamese immigrations of the nineteen-seventies but is filled with social observation of contemporary middle-class culture and indie sensibility . . . Quietly beautiful, Strom's stories are hip without being ironic." --The New Yorker

When The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys was first published in 2006, it was groundbreaking in its depiction of contemporary young Vietnamese women living in the United States, centering their ordinary lives as mothers, lovers, friends, and daughters against the backdrop of immigration and assimilation. Available now for the first time in paperback and featuring an introduction by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud and a new preface by the author, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys is a beautifully written, psychologically astute foray into the rite of female passage.

Author: Dao Strom
ISBN-10: 1640092706
ISBN-13: 9781640092709
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 11/12/2019
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.10d