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Last updated May 19, 2008 4:54 p.m. PT
Read this: 'The Boat'
Nam Le. Alfred A. Knopf. 272 pages. $22.95.
The stories in this remarkable collection are full of people in moments of extremis, confronted by death or loss or terror (or all three) and forced to grapple at the most fundamental level with who they are and what they want or believe. Whether it's the prospect of dying at sea or being shot by a drug kingpin or losing family members in a war, Nam Le's people are individuals trapped in the cross hairs of fate, forced to choose whether they will react like deer caught in the headlights, or whether they will find a way to confront or disarm the situation.
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