Diem Thuy, 30, went from 102 kilograms to 60 kilograms over a period of six months before her first date with a guy she met on the Internet. Thuy had always eaten whatever she wanted whenever she felt ...

If you don't often read first novels, make an exception for this brief, elegiac work, which recreates in a skilfully shaped mosaic the life of a Vietnamese family who came as boat people to the US. It ...