Monkey Bridge
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 First edition | |
| Author | Lan Cao |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Immigrant, Vietnamese American, war and exile |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
Publication date | 1997 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 260 |
| ISBN | 0-14-026361-6 |
| OCLC | 39481595 |
Monkey Bridge, published in 1997, is the debut novel of Vietnamese American attorney and writer Lan Cao, a professor of international law at Chapman University School of Law. She fled Vietnam in 1975, at the end of the Vietnam War. In addition to Monkey Bridge, Cao co-authored Everything You Need to Know about Asian American History with Himilce Novas.
Plot summary
Cowart, David. "Assimilation and Adolescence: Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge." Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006. 138–59.