Home
Baptism by soup
Kind of blue
All too perfect
Heat poisoning
Going global
Ten green bottles and a pound of flesh
Drop-dead gorgeous
Waylaid
Hanoians
Please have peety
Peasants with pitchforks
Something is rotten
Magic faraway land
The capture window
Deluge
Tales of woe
Genius boy
The revelations of Hoa
Arrogant
When classes go awry
The hottest chick in Hanoi
Message from a chicken
Patriot games
Fellowship of the ring
Ex-Adonis magnet
Crush
The interview
‘A moving horrible’
Mooncakes
Chuot
Chopsticks of doom
Foreign object
Rat sack Zac
A night of uninvited guests
The Itchy and Scratchy show: Part I
The Itchy and Scratchy show: Part II
Leguma
November
Nga and Tuan
Special medicine
Farewells all round
Quan
Island of green, in a blue stream
I see cold people
Huong and Cuong
Tet
Excuse me while I kiss the tarmac
Poor Ly
Birthday
Wedding
Kim
Fat lady sings for me and the fat man
Bill’s new job
The rise and rise of caboose
One long, strange year
Ring cycle
Dinosaur!
This is not a swan song
Epilogue
Glossary of Vietnamese terms used in this book
Acknowledgements