Lan Cao/ Monkey Bridge

Abstract: A 5 page essay that summarizes Lan Cao's evocative novel of Vietnamese emigrants. Monkey Bridge tells the story of seventeen-year-old Mai Nyugen and her widowed mother, Thanh, who emigrated to the US from Vietnam. It relates what assimilation to American life has been like for both mother and daughter, as well as detailing the complicated role reversal that has resulted because of their new location. No additional sources cited.

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Subcatagory: American Literature

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