Because the Rain (22 page)

     ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42763-4

     ISBN-10: 0-312-42763-8

     1. Chicago (Ill.)—Fiction. 2. Vietnam War, 1961–1975—Veterans—Fiction. 3. Vietnamese—Illinois—Chicago—Fiction. 4. Prostitutes—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3602.U27B43 2007

813'.6—dc22

2006051180

First published in the United States by St. Martin’s Press

First Picador Edition: February 2008

eISBN 9781466854086

First eBook edition: August 2013