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The Boat 
Nam Le, 2008
Knopf Doubleday
240 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780307388193


Summary
The seven stories in Nam Le's masterful collection The Boat take us across the globe, from the slums of Colombia to Iowa City; from the streets of Tehran to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea. They guide us to the heart of what it means to be human—and herald the arrival of a remarkable new writer. (From the publisher.)