The other side of heaven: postwar fiction

Introduction / Wayne Karlin

Part one. A walk in the garden of heaven: A walk in the garden of heaven / George Evans

The American blues / Ward Just

Wandering souls / Bao Ninh

Part two. The honored dead: a walk in the garden of heaven: Nada / Judith Ortiz Cofer

Fragment of a man / Ho Anh Thai

A soldier's burial / Philip Caputo

Two village women / Nguyen Quang Thieu

The honored dead / Breece D'J Pancake

Part three. Wounds: a walk in the garden of heaven: The house behind the temple of literature / Tran Vu

Helping / Robert Stone

The rucksack / Le Luu

The pugilist at rest / Thom Jones

Please don't knock on my door / Xuan Thieu

Speaking of courage / Tim O'Brien

The man who stained his soul / Vu Bao

Dressed like summer leaves / Andre Dubus

The slope of life / Nguyen Mong Giac

Waiting for dark / Larry Brown

Part four. Hauntings: a walk in the garden of heaven: Waiting for a friend / Ngo Tu Lap

Paco's Dreams / Larry Heinemann

Tony D / Le Minh Khue

The billion dollar skeleton / Phan Huy Duong

Part five. Exiles: a walk in the garden of heaven: The autobiography of a useless person / Nguyen Xuan Hoang

Coming down again / John Balaban

The key / Vo Phien

The walls, the house, the sky / Thanhha Lai

Twilight / Hoang Khoi Phong

Part six. Legacies: a walk in the garden of heaven: Rashad / John Edgar Wideman

The sound of harness bells / Nguyen Quang Lap

Point lookout / Wayne Karlin

Humping the boonies / Bobbie Ann Mason

Letters from my father / Robert Olen Butler

Above the woman's house / Da Ngan

She in a dance of frenzy / Andrew Lam

Marine Corps issue / David McLean

Mother and daughter / Ma Van Khang

Heat / Richard Bausch

The general retires / Nguyen Huy Thiep

Part seven

A walk in the garden of heaven: Epilogue / Gloria Emerson.