House of Sticks: A Memoir Poetry as well as more than

as well as more than a dozen family photos

From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day

extraordinary courage

There is no question that European colonization introduced smallpox

and to create vases overflowing with layered blooms

House of Sticks: A Memoir Poetry as well as more thanAn intimate, beautifully written coming of age memoir recounting a young girls journey from war torn Vietnam to Ridgewood, Queens, and her struggle to find her voice amid clashing cultural expectations. Ly Tran is just a toddler in 1993 when she and her family immigrate from a small town along the Mekong river in Vietnam to a two bedroom railroad apartment in Queens. Lys father, a former lieutenant in the South Vietnamese army, spent nearly a decade