![]() ![]() If the pun-alicious title of Sign, Gone hasn’t clued you in yet, Tran has turned out to be anything but poorly read. Then he grew up in a small Pennsylvania town in the Susquehanna Valley where inevitably the kids in school classified him as the one Asian kid, and he classified most of them as “poorly read. He left Saigon, one little baby shoe flung away and missing in the rush of it, when he was just a toddler. “In Vietnamese,” he writes in his debut memoir Sigh, Gone, “the word for country and the word for water are the same” because with the nation’s two-thousand-mile coastline and thousands of islands, “waters were so prominent to its primordial people that water defined where you came from. ![]() The shop’s website expresses a “commitment to environmental, social-justice, humanitarian, and civic issues” because “we are not islands.” Tran knows about islands. ![]() Phuc Tran, Carlisle High School graduate of the Class of 1991, moved to Portland (the one in Maine) with his wife and two little girls to open Tsunami Tattoo in 2003. ![]()
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