Birds of Paradise Lost

From the award-winning author of Perfume Dreams , a collection of thirteen short stories following Vietnamese immigrants new to the United States. The thirteen stories in  Birds of Paradise Lost  shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America’s newest Americans, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area. The past—memories of war and its aftermath, of murder, arrest, re-education camps and