A Pulitzer Prize winning collection of short stories about the Vietnamese immigrant experience in the United States for those who fled after the end of the war in 1973. Touching in their humanity and delicate as lace-work structures, not much happens except beauty, sadness, dislocation, loss, and distance. Human connection appears to overcome loss but it is a difficult, sad struggle. My favorite is the romance between Cohen, the Jewish lawyer widower and Miss Giàu, a Vietnamese waitress in a Chinese restaurant—beautiful.