Name: Grass Roof, Tin Roof
ISBN: 9780618145591

Dao Strom

In 1975, Tran, a Vietnamese writer facing government persecution, flees her homeland with her two children and seeks refuge in the West, where she marries a Danish-American man with his own memories of another war, in a sensitive debut novel about the impact of cultural displacement. A first novel. Original.

Grass Roof, Tin Roof

Sabrina D. 

It’s hard to navigate a world ruled by the doctrines and secrets of your parents, of your country, of your self. It’s harder to live in a world that sees you as other, that wants you to choose a side. And it’s hardest to live in a permanent grey state, not defined one way or the other. Dao Strom’s Grass Roof, Tin Roof created an experience that built in my stomach and creeped and pulled at my heart. How do you separate yourself from your country or your parents? Especially when they did not leave you with a solid sense of identity to begin with? How do you come into your own without completely forsaking where you came from? Strom does not leave an answer so much as she leaves a conversation on these matters. Follow the story of Tran and her family as they leave the turmoil of communist Vietnam to settle and “become Americans.”

Grass Roof, Tin Roof

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