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 | In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine. |
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 | Robert Olen Butler served as a translator in Vietnam. In A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN, he draws on his experience with that country to write about about postwar Vietnamese émigrés in New Orleans, and the Americans whose lives touch theirs.... |
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| Maxine Hong Kingston writes about the bonds as well as the conflicts between women in Chinese-American culture--how the traditional Asian way of life is transformed in the new world for better and for worse. In the process, Kingston tells the story... |
| Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and enjoying life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American. |
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