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244 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
Two years later I watched Marguerite Duras follow her lover into Cho Lon.
Ten years later in Paris, I’ve come to know that other authors had great artistic traditions to back them up, whereas those from Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia were only seen as representatives of the numerous wounds of war and poverty....At thirty-nine I knew what waiting felt like. At thirty-nine I knew what defeat felt like.
He said, you can spin whatever yarn you like but don’t skimp on the paragraph breaks, your readers need to catch their breath, and don’t forget a chapter break every few pages so they can practice counting to ten. I chortled, I hadn’t expected my readers to have such exacting demands.