le thi diem thuy

lê thi diem thúy was born in 1972 in South Vietnam and left the country on a boat with her father in 1978. She grew up in Linda Vista, San Diego, Southern California and in 1993 traveled to Paris to research French colonial picture postcards made in the early 1900s. A writer and a performance artist, she is the author of the novel The Gangster We Are All Looking For.