Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. dj. SIGNED 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.' INSCRIBED on the page opposite the title page and dated in the year of publication. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-618-304002.