Word: sut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Naomi's strategy is self-destructive, Sut-On in "Dragon Lady" lashes out at others instead. A Chinese girl living near Saigon, Sut-On is unable to define a place for herself in either French or Vietnamese society so she becomes the Dragon Lady, exorcising her not-belonging through murder. "If her heart is remote," Kaplan writes, "she'd be the last one to know...
Kaplan treats her characters compassionately. There are no real villains in these stories, only people who seem more unpleasant than others--like Miriam's aunt and Sut-On's money-grubbing uncle--because their struggle with life has crippled them more...