The title of the book called my attention at the Singapore Library. This book by Bich Nguyen is about a Vietnamese family in the US. Identity crisis, US-born Vietnamese and along with the petite status tag along.

Sisters, Van and Linny Luong are day and night. Van is the studious one – married and living a dream till her husband decides to walk away. Linny drops out of college and is in a relationship with a married man. Their lives are far apart till the phone call from their father beckons them home. Mr.Luong is getting ready for a reality show to feature his inventions for short people – the Luong Arm, the Luong Wall and the Luong Eye. The sisters get together and get over their past and look to the future.

The story is rather abrupt at the end. It is interesting but not interesting enough to have me hooked on. I did not bother to continue past the first 30 pages and I literally had to force myself to do it. But I am kind of glad I did it.

New authors, new perspectives – the joy of reading