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...novel, narrated by a much solder Kate, unfolds through impressionistic episodes marked by wonder at exotic sights and sounds, from the "laundry strung on bamboo poles" and "rattan birdcages" to the smells of "dried oysters, clove hair oil, joss, [and] tiger balm" in the streets of Hong Kong. But politics are inescapable and an expatriate's distance increasingly difficult to retain. Their father, a photographer at TIME magazine assigned to cover the Vietnam War, has moved to Hong Kong from New York with the idea that, "Hong Kong would be safer than Saigon; an old-fashioned British enclave...
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