Charles Waugh (Editor) CHARLES WAUGH is an assistant professor of English at Utah State University. He has lived in Vietnam several times over the last twelve years and his stories and essays about those experiences have appeared in the Sycamore Review, Flyway, Pilgrimage, the Wisconsin Review, Proteus, and ISLE.Huy Lien (Editor) HUY LIEN (pen name for the author Nguyen Lien) is a professor emeritus of literature at Vietnam National University. He has translated such works as The Glass Menagerie and The Prince of Tides into Vietnamese.

Sad isn't even the half of it, when it comes to these lovingly crafted, expertly translated, exquisite stories of pain, loss and heartache. When you read Family of Fallen Leaves, you feel it in the pit of your stomach - no small achievement for any type of literature, much less fiction translated from a language where so much is implied, contextual and makes use of ritual phrases and intricate word play.

Charles Waugh (Editor) CHARLES WAUGH is an assistant professor of English at Utah State University. He has lived in Vietnam several times over the last twelve years and his stories and essays about those experiences have appeared in the Sycamore Review, Flyway, Pilgrimage, the Wisconsin Review, Proteus, and ISLE.Huy Lien (Editor) HUY LIEN (pen name for the author Nguyen Lien) is a professor emeritus of literature at Vietnam National University. He has translated such works as The Glass Menagerie and The Prince of Tides into Vietnamese.

Sad isn't even the half of it, when it comes to these lovingly crafted, expertly translated, exquisite stories of pain, loss and heartache. When you read Family of Fallen Leaves, you feel it in the pit of your stomach - no small achievement for any type of literature, much less fiction translated from a language where so much is implied, contextual and makes use of ritual phrases and intricate word play.

Charles Waugh (Editor) CHARLES WAUGH is an assistant professor of English at Utah State University. He has lived in Vietnam several times over the last twelve years and his stories and essays about those experiences have appeared in the Sycamore Review, Flyway, Pilgrimage, the Wisconsin Review, Proteus, and ISLE.Huy Lien (Editor) HUY LIEN (pen name for the author Nguyen Lien) is a professor emeritus of literature at Vietnam National University. He has translated such works as The Glass Menagerie and The Prince of Tides into Vietnamese.

Sad isn't even the half of it, when it comes to these lovingly crafted, expertly translated, exquisite stories of pain, loss and heartache. When you read Family of Fallen Leaves, you feel it in the pit of your stomach - no small achievement for any type of literature, much less fiction translated from a language where so much is implied, contextual and makes use of ritual phrases and intricate word play.