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Born in Laos of Chinese descent, T. C. Huo immigrated to the United States in 1979. He received a master's degree in creative writing from the University of California at Irvine. Among the writers Huo has studied with are Thomas Keneally, Ethan Canin, and Robert Pinsky. He has received the award for adult fiction from theAsian/Pacific American Librarians Association.He is the author of Land of Smiles andA Thousand Wings, and lives in Santa Clara, California.
As an original telling of the Asian immigrant experience by a talented survivor, it is a decided success: a remarkable story, a courageous performance, and we're privileged to get it. --Los Angeles Times Boontakorn's forays into American culture are sympathetically portrayed, his alienation delineated in bittersweet scenarios.... As a chronicle of an exile's courage, bewilderment and numb longing, Huo's taut but impressively atmospheric second novel is a valuable addition to our literature of Asian ethnicity. --Publishers Weekly Huo's comic descriptions of his characters' lives in California further enhance this novel's alluring sense of dislocation. --New York Times
