“Intimate, soaring, powerful and moving.”
 – Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

“Between Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora lies a vast chasm. Tuan Phan’s Gills and Other Stories, which dwells between memory and progress, myth and reality, while crossing time zones and borders, wonderfully bridges that chasm.”
– Andrew Lam

“Gills: and Other Stories opens as a fleeting snippet of an interaction by a bánh mì stall at early dawn expands, story by story, and slowly crystallizes into an intricate and dynamic portrait of contemporary Saigon, within which different smaller worlds recursively overlap, collide, and coalesce.”
– Saigoneer.com