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Permissions From Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao. Copyright © 1997 by Lan Cao. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. “Lac Long Quan and Au Co” and “The Legend of the Betel” from Beyond the West Wind by Jewell R. Coburn and Duong Van Quyen. Copyright © 1976 by Jewell Reinhart Coburn and Duong Van Quyen. Reprinted by permission of the authors. From In the Jaws of History by Bùi Điệm and David Chanoff. Copyright © 1999 by Bùi Điệm and David Chanoff. Reprinted by permission of the authors. “All Around What Empties Out,” “The Most Beautiful Word,” and “Lang Mastery ” from All Around What Empties Out by Linh Dinh. Copyright © 2003 by Linh Dinh. Used by permission of the author, Tinfish Press, and Subpress. From The Sacred Willow by Duong Van Mai Elliott. Copyright © 1999 by Duong Van Mai Elliott. Used by permission of Oxford University Press. From When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip. Copyright © 1989 by Le Ly Hayslip and Charles Jay Wurts. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. “It Was His Story” by Khanh Ho. Copyright © 2009 by Khanh Ho. Printed by permission of the author. From South Wind Changing by Jade Ngọc Quang Huỳnh, pp. 71–75 and 132–134. Copyright © 1994 by Jade Ngọc Quang Huỳnh. Reprinted by permission of Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota, www.graywolfpress.org. From The Land I Lost by Huynh Quang Nhuong. Copyright © 1982 by Huynh Quang Nhuong. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. From A Thousand Tears Falling by Yung Krall. Copyright © 1995 by Yung Krall. Used by permission of the author. “The Stories They Carried” from Perfume Dreams by Andrew Lam. Copyright © 2005 by Andrew Lam. Used by permission of the author. From Shallow Graves by Wendy Wilder Larsen and Tran Thi Nga. Copyright © 1986 by Wendy Wilder Larsen. Reprinted by permission of the authors. From “the gangster we are all looking for” from The Gangster We Are All Looking For by lê thi diem thúy. Copyright © 2003 by lê thi diem thúy. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. “Eyes to the Earth,” “Appleseed,” and “Xuân” from Breaking The Map by Kim-An Lieberman. Copyright © 2008 by Kim-An Lieberman. Used by permission of the author. “Grotto” from Song of the Cicadas by Mộng Lan. Copyright © 2001 by the University of Massachusetts Press. Used by permission of the University of Massachusetts Press. 250 | Permissions From Miles from Home by Anna Kim-Lan McCauley. Copyright © 1984 by AKLM Publications. Reprinted by permission of the author. From The Unwanted by Kien Nguyen. Copyright © 2001 by Nguyen-Andrews, LLC. Used by permission of Little Brown & Company. From Living Dead in Denmark by Qui Nguyen. Printed by permission of the author. From Fallen Leaves by Nguyễn Thị Thu-Lâm. Copyright © 1989 by Yale Southeast Asia Studies. Reprinted by permission of Yale Southeast Asia Studies. From “Electioneering: Vietnamese Style” by Nguyen Thi Tuyet Mai. Public Domain. From At Home in America by Nguyen Van Vu with Bob Pittman. Copyright © 1979 by B&H Publishing Group. Used by permission. From “Viet-Kieu” from Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham. Copyright © 1999 by Andrew X. Pham. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC; and by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. From “Visitors” from We Should Never Meet by Aimee Phan. Copyright © 2004 by the author. Reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press, LLC. From “Georgia Red Dirt” from Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America by Andrew Spieldenner. Copyright © 2000 by Andrew Spieldenner. Reprinted by permission of the author. From Our Endless War: Inside Vietnam by Trần Văn Đôn. Copyright © by Trần Văn Đôn. Used by permission of Presidio Press, an imprint of the Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. “Wound, 1968,” “Fire,” “Fairy Tale,” and “Art” from In the Mynah Bird’s Own Words by Barbara Tran. Copyright © 2002 by Barbara Tran. Reprinted by permission of the author. “what remains one,” “what remains two,” “what remains three,” “what remains four,” “what remains five,” and “lessons” from Placing the Accents by Trương Tran. Copyright 1999 © by Trương Tran. Reprinted by permission of the author. The Little Weaver of Thái-Yên Village by Trần Khánh Tuy...

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