Book Review: Short Girls

I just picked up a book from the library last week called Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen.  It caught my eye because I'm short, and I enjoy reading novels written by Asian American women.  It's fun to read stories that are vaguely familiar and resonate with me and my upbringing.

The book tells the story of two sisters, raised in the US, but born to immigrants from Vietnam.  Their father is an inventor of appliances made to service short people--the Luong Arm to help one reach items from a high shelf and the Luong Eye to help one see above the crowds.  In his own way, he was trying to level the playing field in this new world for himself and his daughters.

One sister is Van, an accomplished lawyer, whose marriage is falling apart.  The other sister is Linny, a college drop-out, who's having an affair with a married man.  Both of them are drifting, and not really understanding who they are or what they want in life.  Their father's citizenship ceremony brings them together for the first time in a long time.  Confronting one another, and the men in their lives, finally leads them each down a different path in their lives, hopefully for the better.

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