Monkey Bridge

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Monkey Bridge
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First edition
Author Lan Cao
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreImmigrant, Vietnamese American, war and exile
Publisher Viking Press
Publication date
1997
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages260
ISBN 0-14-026361-6
OCLC 39481595

Monkey Bridge, published in 1997, is the debut novel of Vietnamese American attorney and writer Lan Cao, a professor of international law at Chapman University School of Law. She fled Vietnam in 1975, at the end of the Vietnam War. In addition to Monkey Bridge, Cao co-authored Everything You Need to Know about Asian American History with Himilce Novas.


References

Cowart, David. "Assimilation and Adolescence: Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge." Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006. 138–59.

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