As the Heart Bones Break, Audrey Chin

In Thong Tran's Vietnam, everyone is at war and no one is who they seem. Like everyone, the boy from the Mekong Delta cannot escape the war. And like them, he too must create shades of himself to survive.

But even a conflicted heart needs a home. Thong yearns for a true father and a cause to give himself to. He chooses independence, liberty and happiness--his tutor and the Viet Cong. It is a choice with karmic consequences he will spend the next half century criss-crossing the Pacific to outrun.

 Can Thong set down the bones ranking in his heart? And at what cost?