Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia by her grandmother, only to then flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie...
Vietnamese Americans
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Author:Yip-Williams, JulieSummary: - Author:Hoang, HelenSummary:
Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but he doesn't experience big, important emotions like love and grief. Rather than believing he...
- Author:Gibb, CamillaSummary:
Searching for answers about her dissident father's disappearance, a Vietnamese-American art curator returns to her ancestral country, where she meets a venerable pho stall soup maker and a dynamic young tour guide whose historical...
- Author:Tran, PhucSummary:
For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. In 1975, during...
- Author:Nguyen, BethSummary:
Named a Best Memoir of 2023 by Oprah Daily. Selected by Time, NPR, and BookPage as a Best Book of 2023. "This book...is what memoir writing in the hands of a caring, curious wunderkind can be." - Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy...
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Author:Lai, ThanhhaSummary:Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
- Author:Phi, Bao.Summary:
As a young boy, Bao and his father awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. A...
