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    <body><![CDATA[As novels go, <em>The Gangster We Are All Looking For</em> -- Le Thi Diem Thuy's beautifully told account of a Vietnamese immigrant family -- is soaking wet.<br/><br/>The sea is a constant, foreboding presence. Bodies are washing ashore on the first page and they are washing ashore on the last page. A man ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2025582">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Today--speedily even by my standards--I read thuy lê's new book The Gangster We Are All Looking For. It is one of those new novels-in-stories, or stories-as-a-novel pieces that are so popular now. It reminded me primarily of two other books about the Asian-American experience: When the Emperor Was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77382303">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just read this book for the 5th time.  I have to admit that I did not like the book when I first read it, but with each reading, my appreciation for this book increases.  I love its poetic language and fragmented narrative.  Here is one of my favorite passages:<br/><br/>&quot;After I ran away, I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38451369">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel somewhat neglected by the author when the plot gives way so often to more evocative, lyrical moments. In my less generous moments, I have even found those moments repetitive. But then I try to focus on the artistic purposefulness of the way in which the writer returns to water imagery and how...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45822318">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lyric look at a childhood of a Vietnamese immigrant. This book read impressionistically and lyrically--like a long form poem written in prose. There are slight hints at pre and post war Vietnam. How families were torn apart, rebuilt themselves and were torn apart again. You will be unsatisfied if ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39475092">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I told a friend I'd never read any Southeast Asian fiction.  This was the closest she had at her apartment.  It's awfully, awfully easy to write romans-a-clef about childhood layered thick with magical-realist tropes-- Sandra Cisneros, I'm looking at you-- and most of the time it's utter schlock.  S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47569040">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am in the habit of looking up syllabi of professors i admire in the field when i want to read books from other countries. This one is from Vietnam and was recommended by a prof. at Stanford. I loved it. I feel that the author tries very hard to surround teh past with magic and sugar and it still h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57175484">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Along with a child-like attention to detail and soft, poetic language there is a magical quality to the story-telling in this memoir - like the interweaving of fact and imagination in a Maurice Sendak book. In 'The Gangster', time, space and reality are grounded in reality but fluid. Increaingly rap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10217934">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[poetic novel about Vietnamese immigrants to USA (California). Told from the p.o.v. of a young girl I enjoyed her descriptions of the weird place she's ended up in, and the behaviour of those around her (particularly teenage boys). Slim, almost plotless (although there is the story of her family's di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51124129">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thuy's book reads like a series of poems, all brushing an overriding narrative so slightly that, if you're looking for it all to make sense, you'll almost certainly be disappointed.  However, because her style of writing is so beautiful, and her imagery is so pointed, I can't help but love this book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15624229">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My book review for &quot; The ganster i am all looking for&quot; by Le Thi Diem Thuy, is an interesting book. SOme of the major events in this book are: When the main character and her dad move to america and lived in a friends house in which the friend had sponser the main character family into ame...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75279755">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like this book. It is a very creative novel.  The language is beautiful, the detail in the actions and observances.  The act of naming, who is given names and who is unnamed, from the beginning with the child, her Ba, and the four &quot;uncles&quot;. The ending fell a little flat to me.  She reall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46625709">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The writing in this is beautiful but sad as Le Thi Diem Thuy tells her story of adjusting to life in America. She mixes her own memories of her childhood with stories of her own parents' childhood. <br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Delicate and beautiful. An immigration story that goes against all we've come to expect as a result of the &quot;canon&quot; of immigration stories. Someone in class mentioned that this novel left them with an emotion or set of moods, as opposed to most novels which leave us with a story. Deeply poe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56821209">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this was a better book than 2 stars, but I'm rating based on my enjoyment. I wasn't captivated.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I appreciated the choice of this book by the Literary Fiction by People of Color group.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was okay, and gave some insight from the perspective of an immigrant, but did not really click for me.]]></body>
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