Siam or The Woman Who Shot a Man
by Lily Tuck

A haunting novel of intrigue and lost innocence, Siam tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of real-life silk trader Jim Thompson and one young woman's search for the truth in the midst of the Vietnam conflict. Siam is the American experience in Vietnam writ small and further establishes Lily Tuck as a major voice in contemporary fiction.

"In her own and unique fashion, Tuck has written a novel that asks profound questions about America’s involvement in Southeast Asia and about the possibilities for intimacy and communication, not only across cultures but within marriages."
— New York Times Book Review

"This is a spare, strange, fascinating novel. Scene by scene, sentence by sentence, it manages to capture both a culture and a single human heart on the verge of devastating change."
— Alice McDermott