The Latehomecomer Reading Notes

Genre

The Latehomecomer is a memoir, not a novel (memoirs are non-fiction, novels are fiction). The memoir is divided into four parts, and below is my take on the genre of each of the parts:

 Part Genre (what you should expect) Other Examples
Part I, "People of the Sky" Adventure story Swiss Family Robinson, The Sound of Music (the end)
Part II, "The Little Girl with Dimples" Refugee camp story  
Part III, "The American Years" Immigrant coming of age (girl) Stealing Buddha's Dinner (contrast: Bich Minh Nguyen's mother and grandmother not present)
Part IV, "The Latehomecomer" Biography of grandmother "For the Women"
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