Malaysia’s capital and largest city, where Thi and her family goes for their medical checkups and flight to the United States. Bố is briefly stuck here, since his medical tests show scars from his tuberculosis decades before.
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Chapter 8: The Shore
...buy plane tickets with the help of the Red Cross. The family gets checkups in Kuala Lumpur , but Bố’s shows a lung problem related to his old tuberculosis, so he has...
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