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When Hai and Grazina first meet, he is standing on a bridge contemplating jumping. She invites him in and he ends up staying as her caretaker, as she is slipping into dementia. Hai also takes a job at the fast casual restaurant HomeMarket and the workers there become another found family for him. Vuong writes with such empathy and care and specificity about small towns, marginalized people, the mundane . There is loss and addiction and precarity and trauma, but there is also hope and friendship and humor and joy. Hai takes on the persona of Sgt Pepper and imagines alongside Grazina when she retreats into childhood and war memories. The HomeMarket crew all rally around each other and for each other, whether its BJ's wrestling debut or Sony's mission for his father. I loved all the time I spent in the company of these characters.