![]() ![]() ![]() Liem is caught off guard by this comment. Before Liem can correct him, Parrish says that he didn’t expect Liem to be so pretty. ![]() Parrish is middle-aged and British, and upon meeting Liem, pronounces his name incorrectly. I remember moving to San Jose, California, in 1978 and my parents opening the second Vietnamese grocery store in the city and I remember the phone call on Christmas Eve that my brother took, informing him that my parents had been shot in an armed robbery, and I remember that it was not that bad, just flesh wounds, they were back at work not long after, and I remember that the only people who wanted to open businesses in depressed downtown San Jose were the Vietnamese refugees, and I remember walking down the street from my parents’ store and seeing a sign in a store window that said ‘Another American driven out of business by the Vietnamese,’ and I remember the gunman who followed us to our home and knocked on our door and pointed a gun in all our faces and how my mother saved us by running past him and out onto the sidewalk, but I do not remember the two policemen shot to death in front of my parents’ store because I had gone away to college by that time and my parents did not want to call me and worry me. Analysis Liem, a refugee, arrives at the San Diego airport and meets his sponsor, Parrish Coyne. ![]()
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