The eight linked stories that comprise Aimee Phan's chilling debut are inspired by and "Operation Babylift, and " the evacuation of thousands of orphans from Vietnam to America weeks before the fall of Saigon. Moving effortlessly between the war-torn homeland and Orange County's and "Little Saigon, and " Phan chronicles the journeys of four such orphans. Passionate and beautifully written, We Should Never Meet is an utterly fresh reconsideration of the Vietnam War for a new generation and heralds the arrival of one of and "the very best of the new wave of Asian-American authors and " (David Wong Louie).