Goodbye, Saigon: A Novel - Tapa dura

Two women--Ahn, a fast-talking, Vietnamese beauty, and Jana, the Anglo secretary of a coke-sniffing, gambling lawyer--each fleeing the pain of their pasts, join forces to forge an independent future amid the turbulent world of Little Saigon, Los Angeles. 35,000 first printing.

PINNING, HILARIOUS AND HAUNTING."
--Glamour
Anh, a brash, resourceful Vietnamese refugee with a tortured past, has survived the end of her homeland, and now hangs on by a thread working in a shady casino in Southern California. She's the only thing standing between her ungrateful family and starvation. By dint of her wits and her guts, she picks up real money selling her phenomenal luck to a drugged-out gambling lawyer.
Then, with the help of a legal secretary named Jana, she creates an unlicensed law practice that actually begins to help the Vietnamese immigrants of Little Saigon. But their booming business angers a notorious Vietnamese gang who want to keep the power and the money in their own pockets. Yet Anh isn't afraid of anyone. Alone or with Jana, she's willing to start her own private war, where she takes all weapons, no prisoners, and breathes life into the future from the ashes of the dead.
"EXUBERANT...Performs the miraculous by making us laugh even as we