A Manhattan neighborhood known during the 19th and 20th centuries as a crowded landing point for immigrants. Thi compares her family’s neighborhood of Bàn Cờ in Sài Gòn to the Lower East Side, which is familiar to her from her years living in New York.
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Chapter 6: The Chessboard
...she wonders how to draw it in her book and decides to model it after the Lower East Side . She also draws the chessboard Bố once made her, and playing the game, she...
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