The Tapestries by Kien Nguyen

I enjoyed Nguyen's memoir The Unwanted so much that I immediately downloaded his first novel, which is called The Tapestries. Once again the exotic setting of Vietnam was fascinating to me, but I was disappointed by the story line which I found hard to believe. When it came to "hidden treasure" and a divided treasure map, I thought "Oh, this is too trite and too much of a stretch," and it made me question how likely other events in the novel were. Not a bad read, but I consider The Tapestries quite mediocre as literature.