5/26/2023 0 Comments Butterfly Yellow by Thanhhà Lại![]() Hằng is devastated but unflagging, and she and LeeRoy are taken on as labor at the ranch, where she works her way through a summer of getting closer to her brother and negotiating her past and her present. She finds a helper/patsy/driver in LeeRoy, a young guy determined to be a cowboy despite his academic upbringing, and together they end up at a ranch in Amarillo, where Hằng’s now eleven-year-old brother lives but doesn’t remember her and wants nothing to do with her. ![]() Hằng never would have crossed the sea on a rotting fishing boat if he weren’t waiting for her.” So thinks eighteen-year-old Hằng, who arrives at her uncle’s house in Texas in 1981 after fleeing Vietnam and within a day heads out to find that younger brother, Linh, who’d been babylifted out of Vietnam years earlier. Grandmother gone, Father gone, mother gone. ![]() “Her brother is the only person left from her youth. ![]()
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