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In Paris, 1934, Bính has accompanied his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to the train station for their departure to America. His own destination is unclear: will he go with "the Steins", stay in France, or return to his native Vietnam? Bính has fled his homeland in disgrace, leaving behind his malevolent charlatan of a father and his self-sacrificing mother. For five years, he has been the live-in cook at the famous apartment at 27 rue de Fleurus.

The lives of writers can often best be understood through the eyes of those who nurtured them and made their work possible. In The Sweetest Fruits, these three women tell the story of their time with Lafcadio Hearn, a globetrotting writer best known for his books about Meiji-era Japan. In their own unorthodox ways, these women are also intrepid travelers and explorers. Their accounts witness Hearn's remarkable life but also seek to witness their own existence and luminous will to live unbounded by gender, race, and the mores of their time.

Growing up in the small town of Boiling Springs, North Carolina, in the 70’s and 80’s, Linda believes that she is profoundly different from everyone else, including the members of her own family. “What I know about you, little girl, would break you in two” are the cruel, mysterious last words that Linda’s grandmother ever says to her.

Das spannende und ungewöhnliche Leben des Schriftsellers Lafcadio Hearn (1850 - 1904) zwischen Griechenland, Irland, England, Amerika und Japan und das Schicksal dreier so unterschiedlicher Frauen läßt Monique Troung vor uns erstehen. Es ist ein abenteuerliches und zugleich reiches Dasein, das Leben eines außergewöhnlichen literarischen Gestaltwandlers und es sind Porträts dreier außergewöhnlich mutigen und starken Frauen, die sein Leben begleiteten.