Dao Strom
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Told from multiple perspectives and spanning several decades, Grass Roof, Tin Roof begins with the story of Tran, a Vietnamese writer facing government persecution, who flees her homeland during the exodus of 1975 and brings her two children to the West. Here, she marries a Danish American man who has survived a different war. He promises understanding and guidance-but the psychic consequences of his past soon hinder his relationships with the family,...