02317cam a2200553 4500 504614030 TxAuBib 20210622120000.0 200811s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020033323 9780593317952 hbk. 0593317955 hbk. (OCoLC)1184123673 TxAuBib Nguyen, Eric. Things we lost to the water : a novel / Eric Nguyen. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. 289 pages ; 22 cm. "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso. When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle into life in America, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Cong, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father. Over time, Huong realizes she will never see Cong again. While she copes with this loss, her sons, Tuan and Binh, grow up in their absent father's shadow, haunted by a man and a country trapped in their memory and imagination. 20210622. Immigrant families. Immigrant families. Fiction. Immigrant families. Vietnam Fiction. Immigrants. Immigrants. Fiction. Immigrants. Louisiana Fiction. Life change events Fiction. Life change events. Families Fiction. Families. Vietnamese Americans Fiction. Vietnamese Americans. Identity (Philosophical concept) Fiction. Identity (Philosophical concept.) FICTION / Asian American. FICTION / Coming of Age. FICTION / Family Life / General. New Orleans (La.) New Orleans (La.) Fiction. Louisiana. Louisiana. Fiction. Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans. Fiction. Novels. TXDRI