Certainty -- The Migrant Rain -- Here -- Four Photos -- On the Back of a Tiger -- An Acute Accent -- Waiting -- Houston -- A Made-Up History -- The Last Emperor -- Decision to Leave -- A New Life Begins -- Kill Your Father -- Mother Narrator -- Flights -- Falling in Reverse -- Chonburi

"With the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the U.S. war in Vietnam ended, but the refugee crisis was only beginning. Among the millions of people who fled Vietnam by boat were Vinh Nguyen, along with his mother and siblings, and his father, who left separately and then mysteriously vanished. Decades later, Nguyen goes looking for the story of his lost father. What he discovers is a sea of questions drifting above a bed of buried truths. To come to terms with the past, Nguyen must piece together the debris of history with family stories that have been scattered across generations and continents, kept for decades in broken hearts and guarded silences"--Provided by publisher