Hardcover, 343 pages
English language
Published Feb. 28, 2001 by Back Bay Books.
3 stars
(1 review)
Saigon fell to the Viet Cong on April 30, 1975. Kien Nguyen watched the last U.S. Army helicopter leave without him, without his brother, without his mother, without his grandparents. Left to a nightmarish existence in a violated & decimated country, Kien was more at risk than most because of his odd blond hair & his light eyes - because he was Amerasian. He was the most unwanted. Told with stark & poetic brilliance, this is a story of survival & hope, a moving & personal record of a tumultuous & important piece of history.
Subjects
- Asian history: Vietnam War
- Biography: general
- Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000
- Refugees
- Biography & Autobiography
- Biography / Autobiography
- Biography/Autobiography
- USA
- Vietnam
- Childhood Memoir
- Ethnic Cultures - General
- General
- Biography
- Childhood and youth
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Nguyen, Kien
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Vietnamese Americans