| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro -- Author Biography -- Also by Thanhhà Lại -- Title page -- Dedication -- Part I: the road -- Brittle Brown Ocean -- Summer 1981 -- Hằng -- Horseshoe Moustache -- The Panhandle -- Rhinestone Cowboy -- Giraffe Made of Metal -- The Others -- Kindness From the Stomach Out -- Cold Ginger Ale -- Red Line Across Pale Throat -- Nót Me-Sì-Quýt -- Spiky Memories -- Tattoos -- Musky Wildness -- Washed Bones -- Nice-Guy Burden -- Glass-Whip -- Poem -- Rich Blood Beneath Glossy Skin -- Part II: the ranch -- Silhouette and Spy -- Trouble -- Eyeing a Mirror -- Fuzzy Mix -- Midnight Rodeo |
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Slow Bumpy Ride -- The Good, the Bad, the Ugly -- Memories on the Tongue -- Pushy Uncle -- Truth to Tell -- Skin Peeling Off Bones -- Swells of Saliva -- Real Deal -- Once Was Eleven -- Cute -- Too Intense -- Ice Pebbles -- Upper Arm Against Hers -- Smooth Lullaby of Buzzes -- Lighter Grey -- The Island -- Sappiness -- The Cave -- Each Inhale, Each Exhale -- The Worms -- Someday -- Part III: the butterfly -- Inside a Face -- Bướm Vàng -- The Horrid and the Sublime -- Silence -- Surprise -- H & L -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgements -- Imprint Page |
| Summary |
A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a city boy with rodeo dreams to track down the younger brother she was separated from six years before when he was evacuated by American troops during the waning days of the Vietnam War |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February. 21, 2020) |
| Subject |
Siblings -- Fiction
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Refugees -- United States -- Fiction
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Refugees -- Vietnam -- Fiction
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Siblings
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Refugees
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| SUBJECT |
Texas -- Juvenile fiction
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| Subject |
Texas
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United States
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Vietnam
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| Genre/Form |
Young adult fiction
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Fiction
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Juvenile works
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Young adult works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
070226430X |
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9780702264306 |
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0702264318 |
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9780702264313 |
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