The American Couple by Robert Olen Butler Exceptional story
The American Couple by Robert Olen Butler Exceptional story If this were a film, there would be two lead roles and two supporting ones. In the lead roles we have a Vietnamese couple, Vienh and Gabrielle. Supporting them would be Frank and Eileen. They meet in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Both Eileen and Gabrielle have won the trip as a prize in TV game shows. Gabrielle is very astute and she can generally guess what is behind the face, gestures and acts of a person. She is so good that it seems her husband is uneasy knowing this ability to read behind whatever he does. Well, almost everything he endeavors to do. Vinh appears somewhat annoying, with complaints about the road from the hotel to the airport and a general attitude of disapproval, even if he paid nothing for a vacation that looks so enticing for an ordinary man. Gabrielle is very observant and identifies other personages present at the hotel as winners of various games. But she gets to know Eileen and they somehow initiate...