The book is informed by the Vietnamese immigrations of the nineteen-seventies but is filled with social observation of contemporary middle-class culture and indie sensibility .
Quietly beautiful, Strom's stories are hip without being ironic.
--The New Yorker When The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys was first published in 2006, it was groundbreaking in its depiction of contemporary young Vietnamese women living in the United States, centering their ordinary lives as mothers, lovers, friends, and daughters against the backdrop of immigration and assimilation.
Available now for the first time in paperback and featuring an introduction by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud and a new preface by the author, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys is a beautifully written, psychologically astute foray into the rite of female passage.
About the Author DAO STROM is the author of You Will Always Be Someone from Somewhere Else; We Were Meant to Be a Gentle People; Grass Roof, Tin Roof; and The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys.
She has received awards from the Creative Capital Foundation, RACC, the NEA, and others.
She was born in Vietnam, grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California, and is now based in Portland, Oregon.
Find out more at daostrom.
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