Gills: and Other Stories

From the backstreets of Saigon to the sprawl of suburban Texas, Gills gathers stories of longing, estrangement, and quiet transformation. In luminous, sometimes haunting prose, Tuan Phan captures the ways Vietnamese lives ripple outward across oceans and generations, shaped by war, exile, and the stubborn pull of memory.

A refugee returns to Vietnam decades after fleeing by boat, only to find himself swept into a troubling new kind of tourism. A child shuttles between separated immigrant par...