Research Catalog
Land of smiles
- Title
- Land of smiles / T.C. Huo.
- Author
- Huo, T. C.
- Publication
- New York : Plume, [2000], ©2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3558.U5314 L36 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vi, 215 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Boontakorn is fourteen when he begins has flight to freedom by swimming across the Mekong River to Thailand. Reunited with his father in a refugee camp there, he is suspended between the past and present, between memories of his mother and sister - who did not survive their journey - and the secret social order of the overcrowded camp, where matchmakers cluck over his father and try to find a wife to cook for him.
- Eventually, Boontakorn and his father make their way to America - to California - where they depend on the temporary kindness of relatives and friends, and where Boontakorn must make sense of such dazzling and puzzling Western phenomena as Superman, Saturday Night Fever, and the American high school."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- ISBN
- 0452281857
- LCCN
- 00036720
- OCLC
- ocm43851403
- SCSB-3936206
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries