Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - Young author's very highly praised, and award-winning, first book. Set in Paris in the 1930's, this is told through the eyes of Binh, the Vietnamese cook employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, his 'mesdames.' 261 pp. ISBN: 0-618-304002.