House of Sticks: A Memoir Poetry ISBN-13: 978-0310342991

ISBN-13: 978-0310342991

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House of Sticks: A Memoir Poetry ISBN-13: 978-0310342991An intimate, beautifully written coming of age memoir recounting a young girls journey from war torn Vietnam to Ridgewood, Queens, and her struggle to find her voice amid clashing cultural expectations. Ly Tran is just a toddler in 1993 when she and her family immigrate from a small town along the Mekong river in Vietnam to a two bedroom railroad apartment in Queens. Lys father, a former lieutenant in the South Vietnamese army, spent nearly a decade