Vu Tran
Vu Tran was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and raised in Oklahoma. He is the winner of a Whiting Award, and his short stories have appeared in many publications, including The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Mystery Stories. He teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago. For more information, please go to VuTranWriter.com.
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Dragonfish
- By: Vu Tran
- Narrator: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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Robert, an Oakland cop, still can’t let go of Suzy, the enigmatic Vietnamese wife who left him two years ago. Now she’s disappeared from her new husband, Sonny, a violent Vietnamese smuggler and gambler who’s blackmailing Robert... Read more
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