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Darren Dang
Darren Dang’s mother, Bich Dang, is an extremely successful Vietnamese businesswoman in Darra. She owns and runs an Asian grocery store and a Vietnamese restaurant, and she gives generously to various causes and organizations in the community. Because of this, she’s influential and respected. But when Eli learns that Bich Dang is Lyle’s heroin importer and supplier, he comes to see that Bich Dang is powerful for more reasons than for her business success. She earned her nickname when she stabbed a girl in the eye for teasing her daughter, and she never suffered consequences for this, which makes Eli think that Bich Dang is so prominent in the community because she is one of the people who makes the rules. Bich Dang’s power wanes in the years after Lyle is killed, mostly because she develops cataracts. Darren takes over the drug business, though the family stops importing at this point.
“Back Off” Bich Dang Quotes in Boy Swallows Universe
The Boy Swallows Universe quotes below are all either spoken by “Back Off” Bich Dang or refer to “Back Off” Bich Dang. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Boy Follows Footsteps
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Bich is famous in my town as much for her selfless sponsorship of Darra community events […] as she is for the time she stabbed a Year 5 Darra State School girl, Cheryl Vardy, in the left eye with a steel ruler for teasing Karen Dang about having steamed rice every day for school lunch. Cheryl Vardy needed surgery after the incident. She nearly went blind and Bich Dang didn’t go to prison. That’s when I realized Darra had its own rules and laws and codes and maybe it was ‘Back Off’ Bich Dang who had selflessly drafted them into existence.
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“Back Off” Bich Dang Quotes in Boy Swallows Universe
The Boy Swallows Universe quotes below are all either spoken by “Back Off” Bich Dang or refer to “Back Off” Bich Dang. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Boy Follows Footsteps
Quotes
Bich is famous in my town as much for her selfless sponsorship of Darra community events […] as she is for the time she stabbed a Year 5 Darra State School girl, Cheryl Vardy, in the left eye with a steel ruler for teasing Karen Dang about having steamed rice every day for school lunch. Cheryl Vardy needed surgery after the incident. She nearly went blind and Bich Dang didn’t go to prison. That’s when I realized Darra had its own rules and laws and codes and maybe it was ‘Back Off’ Bich Dang who had selflessly drafted them into existence.
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