Books by Lan Cao and Complete Book Reviews
Lan Cao, Author Viking Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-87367-8
FYI: Lan Cao was airlifted out of Saigon; she is now a law professor at Brooklyn College.
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Lan Cao. Viking, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-670-01692-1
Growing up in ’60s South Vietnam in Saigon’s sister city of Cholon, young Mai first comes into contact with the changes brought by war through benign delights such as the music of Mick Jagger and chewing gum, both provided by the handful of American
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Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao. Viking, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-1-984878-16-8
A Vietnamese refugee, now a California law professor and novelist, attempts to create a secure life for her American-born child in this uneven dual-perspective memoir. Novelist Lan (The Lotus and the Storm) and her teenage daughter Harlan recount...
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