Birds of Paradise Lost Amber Smith Much like the acclaimed Eliza

Much like the acclaimed Eliza and Her Monsters

In this dazzling debut

After their mother dies

Lore tangles in politics

” from TV to travel through places like Vietnam

Birds of Paradise Lost Amber Smith Much like the acclaimed Eliza*Finalist for the California Book Award* The thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of Americas newest Americans, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area. The pastmemories of war and its aftermath, of murder, arrest, re education camps and new economic zones, of escape and shipwreck and atrocityis ever present in