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...most persuasive piece of evidence, however, is Pham himself. Unlike Be or Thanh, Pham is neither wild nor demonstrative. His hair, cut short and jagged around the wound, looks like a washed kitten's. His height is average for a Vietnamese 15-year-old?about 5 ft. 2 in. His build is average. His face is mouth-open flat, without expression, except for the eyes, so brown as to seem black, which cannot exactly be said to have expression either. They are their own depth, the vessels of what they have seen. It is what they have seen that makes...
...taken Be's seat in the classroom, and he is sitting beside Loc, a thinner boy with a narrow face, who appears to be his friend. Pham accepts Loc's presence, but alone, when asked if Loc is his friend, there isn't any qualification in his no. Loc may wish to be Pham's friend now, but he was on the wrong side during the incident at sea. When the boys landed, in fact, they squared off for a fight, and for weeks they hurled challenges at each other. They may reconcile eventually, but Pham, who has a tendency...
Climbing aboard was easy. Pham, who was out by himself fishing one day, simply saw the junk take off from Haiphong, and on he hopped...
...goodbye to his three sisters and brother-in-law, and there was no one else to consult?Pham's mother having died in 1976 of something in the stomach that "pricks and hurts," his father having died of a stroke two years later. Both parents were fishmongers, and Pham knows boats. The one he boarded was 13 meters long. They were 52 days at sea. They had 20 kilos of rice on board and 40 liters of water...
...story is interrupted by the sounds of sawing and drilling where they are expanding the Jubilee center, and by a metallic female voice giving instructions over a loudspeaker at frequent intervals. Pham must be asked to let the noise abate. He would speak straight through...