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43) Pioneer girl
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Discovering a family heirloom that her mother may have received from Laura Ingalls Wilder, PhD graduate Lee Lien explores the tenuous connection between her ancestors and the famous pioneer author only to discover a trail of clues that lead to fateful encounters.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Fake House, the first collection of short stories by poet Linh Dinh, explores the weird, atrocious, fond, and ongoing intimacies between Vietnam and the United States. Linked by a complicated past, the characters are driven by an intense and angry energy. The politics of race and sex anchor Dinh's work as his men and women negotiate their way in a post-Vietnam War world. Dinh has said of his own work, "I incorporate a filth or uncleanness to make...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Told from multiple perspectives and spanning several decades, Grass Roof, Tin Roof begins with the story of Tran, a Vietnamese writer facing government persecution, who flees her homeland during the exodus of 1975 and brings her two children to the West. Here, she marries a Danish American man who has survived a different war. He promises understanding and guidance-but the psychic consequences of his past soon hinder his relationships with the family,...
Author
Publisher
Heyday Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general, came to California on the eve of the fall of Saigon to communist forces. He traded his Vietnamese name for a more American one and immersed himself in the allure of the American dream: something not...
48) The mosquito war
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
They were so close to a cure. And, no one cared. Why should they? Americans would not care about malaria until their own children woke screaming with the fever, until they started burying small caskets in their own country. Su Thom picked up the flask. It was only a tiny sample, but it wouldn't be hard to culture. The idea was so simple. So horrible. So perfect. Americans did not care about anything until it was a threat to their own people. Well...
49) Seadrift
Publisher
Title 8 Productions
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In 1979, a Vietnamese refugee shoots and kills a white crab fisherman at the public town docks in Seadrift, TX. What began as a dispute over fishing territory erupts into violence and ignites a maelstrom of boat burnings, KKK intimidation, and other hostilities against Vietnamese refugees along the Gulf Coast. Set during the early days of Vietnamese arrival in the U.S. "Seadrift" is a feature documentary that examines the circumstances that led up...
Author
Series
Publisher
New York
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
With retirement just out of reach, Dave Brandstetter investigates the killing of a Vietnamese immigrant.
As an insurance investigator, Dave Brandstetter has spent his life unraveling suspicious deaths. Now, well into middle age, he has decided to retire for the sake of Cecil, the young TV reporter who loves and cherishes him, and has too often risked his own life for Dave's work. But retirement does not come easily.
An old friend in the public defender's...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
As a young child, Lac Su made a harrowing escape from the Communists in Vietnam. With a price on his father's head, Lac, with his family, was forced to immigrate in 1979 to seedy West Los Angeles where squalid living conditions and a cultural fabric that refused to thread them in effectively squashed their American Dream. Lac's search for love and acceptance amid poverty-not to mention the psychological turmoil created by a harsh and unrelenting father-turned...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When her brother is exiled to live with distant relatives in Vietnam, a young woman journeys to her family's homeland to bring him back and uncovers mysteries about secret loves, desperate choices, and the human consequences of war.
Author
Publisher
West Margin Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the different ways American and Vietnamese cultures think of love, this book follows a young Vietnamese American girl who asks her friends at school where they store love for their parents. She learns that love can be held throughout the whole body and that there is not just one expression of love"--
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