House of Sticks: A Memoir Ashland120523 and unforgettable: a testament to

and unforgettable: a testament to how transformation goes far beyond a number on the scale

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Publisher: Stewart

Stephen Alcorn's brilliant

award-winning author Sue Rainsford has created an utterly bewitching heroine

House of Sticks: A Memoir Ashland120523 and unforgettable: a testament toAn intimate, beautifully written coming of age memoir recounting a young girls journey from war torn Vietnam to Ridgewood, Queens, and her struggle to find her voice amid clashing cultural expectations. Ly Tran is just a toddler in 1993 when she and her family immigrate from a small town along the Mekong river in Vietnam to a two bedroom railroad apartment in Queens. Lys father, a former lieutenant in the South Vietnamese army, spent nearly a decade