{"product_id":"the-gangster-we-are-all-looking-for","title":"The Gangster We Are All Looking For","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Gangster We Are All Looking For\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eLe Thi Diem Thuy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780375400186\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eKnopf\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2003\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e176\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eA momentous literary debut: the life of a Vietnamese family in America luminously observed through the knowing eyes of a child. \u003cbr\u003eIn 1978 six refugees-- a girl, her father, and four \" uncles\" -- are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child's imagination, the world of itchy dresses and run-down apartments is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimate objects and waits for her mother to join her. \u003cbr\u003eBut life loses none of its strangeness when the family is reunited. As the girl grows, her matter-of-fact innocence eddies increasingly around opaque and ghostly traumas: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland, the memory of a brother who drowned and, most inescapable, her father's hopeless rage for a father's order. \u003cbr\u003eIn The Gangster We Are All Looking For, le thi diem thu y has illuminated a world of great beauty and enormous sorrows. Here is an authentically original story of finding one's place and voice in America.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"The Gangster We Are All Looking For | Le Thi Diem Thuy | Hardcover | 9780375400186 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks C 1739770","offer_id":48168806908056,"sku":"1739770","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71FHwc2QDaL.jpg?v=1771977981","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/the-gangster-we-are-all-looking-for","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}