Kim ha has brothers

he lives with his mom

Kim likes papaya and she is excited to try it.

she started to get bullied

she grows a papaya tree in the yard.

mother warns how the kids act today foretells the whole year.

mother insisted one of the brothers must rise first this morning to bless our house because the only male feet can bring back.

very year mother visits the I ching teller of fate this year he predicts our lives will twist inside out.

mother to push us under the bed and will stop screeching.

mother sleeping beside me, knew.

Ha's father is a South Vietnam Navy soldier. He has been missing in action for nine years, captured by communist soldiers in the North. By the end of the novel, Ha's mother concludes that he is gone forever, likely dead.

there father left there home on a navy mission.

He likes karate

his prized birds, a hog-tie chicken,his bed, his books, and his beloved bicycle.

he becomes head chef, heating up cans of beef and potatoes tasting like salty vomit.

brother vu somehow brings home a huge can, pumping it to work out his arm and muscles.

brother vu, begging him to break yet another piece of wood.

he picks the skin at his elbows

whose studies in engineering impress him.

he says to add an s to nouns to mean more than one even if there's already an s sitting there.

he was forced to swallow before explaining they are used to fresh-killed chicken that roamed the yard.

he was to clamp shut his mouth.

She packs ha's lunch and tells her to eat in class. this is when she makes friends with Pam and Steven.

She wishes that she didn't understand what the other children were saying because they were insulting her. She has her family baptized at the Del Ray Southern Baptist Church

cowboy has white hair

cowboys boots, cigar smoking, teeth shining, red in face, golden in hair.

cowboy brings his wrapped in the plastic or pushed into the cans, while chicken and beef are chopped and frozen.