<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:ee1563b1-95d7-4023-9866-43935ef12425" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <p class="left"><a id="piv"/> Copyright © 2003 by Dao Strom<br/> All rights reserved</p> <p class="left">For information about permission to reproduce selections<br/> from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Company,<br/> 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003.</p> <p class="left">Visit our Web site: <a href="http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com">www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com.</a></p> <p class="left">Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.</p> <p class="left"><span style="font-size: smaller">ISBN</span> 0-618-14559-1</p> <p class="left">Book design by Melissa Lotfy</p> <p class="left">Printed in the United States of America</p> <p class="left"><span style="font-size: smaller">QUM</span> 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1</p> <p class="left">A portion of this novel was published previously, in slightly<br/> different form, in <em>Still Wild</em> (edited by Larry McMurtry, 2000),<br/> <em>Watermark: Vietnamese Poetry and Prose</em> (1998), <em>Vietnam</em><br/> <em>Forum</em> (1997), and <em>The Southern Anthology</em> (1996).</p> </body> </html>