Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books, (2003.). First edition - The author's first novel, an often moving story of an ESL teacher in Missoula, Montana and her Vietnamese and Hmung refugee students. Winner of the 2001 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Rosellen Brown, who wrote the foreword. xii, 307 pp. ISBN: 1889330817.

Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books, (2007.). First edition - A collection of nine short stories, winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Norman Rush and with an introduction by him. Published as a trade paperback original. 214 pp.