The Resource We should never meet : stories, Aimee Phan
We should never meet : stories, Aimee Phan
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The item We should never meet : stories, Aimee Phan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library.
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- Summary
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- "The interlinked stories that make up We Should Never Meet alternate between Saigon before the city's fall in 1975 and present-day "Little Saigon" in Southern California - exploring the reverberations of the Vietnam War in a completely new light." "Intersecting the lives of eight characters across three decades and two continents, these stories dramatize the events of Operation Babylift, the U.S.-led evacuation of thousands of Vietnamese orphans to America just weeks before the fall of Saigon. Unwitting reminders of the war, these children were considered bui doi, the dust of life, and faced an uncertain, dangerous existence if left behind in Vietnam."
- "Four of the stories follow the saga of one orphan's journey from the points-of-view of a teenage mother, a duck farmer and a Catholic num from the Mekong Delta, a social worker in Saigon, and a volunteer doctor from America. The other four stories take place twenty years after the evacuation and chronicle the lives of four Vietnamese orphans now living in America: Kim, an embittered Amerasian searching for her unknown mother; Vinh her gang member ex-boyfriend who preys on Vietnamese families; Mai, an ambitious orphan who faces her emancipation from the American foster-care system: and Huan, an Amerasian adopted by a white family, who returns to Vietnam with his adoptive mother."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (243 pages)
- Contents
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- Miss Lien
- We should never meet
- The delta
- Visitors
- Gates of Saigon
- Emancipation
- Bound
- Motherland
- Label
- We should never meet : stories
- Title
- We should never meet
- Title remainder
- stories
- Statement of responsibility
- Aimee Phan
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "The interlinked stories that make up We Should Never Meet alternate between Saigon before the city's fall in 1975 and present-day "Little Saigon" in Southern California - exploring the reverberations of the Vietnam War in a completely new light." "Intersecting the lives of eight characters across three decades and two continents, these stories dramatize the events of Operation Babylift, the U.S.-led evacuation of thousands of Vietnamese orphans to America just weeks before the fall of Saigon. Unwitting reminders of the war, these children were considered bui doi, the dust of life, and faced an uncertain, dangerous existence if left behind in Vietnam."
- "Four of the stories follow the saga of one orphan's journey from the points-of-view of a teenage mother, a duck farmer and a Catholic num from the Mekong Delta, a social worker in Saigon, and a volunteer doctor from America. The other four stories take place twenty years after the evacuation and chronicle the lives of four Vietnamese orphans now living in America: Kim, an embittered Amerasian searching for her unknown mother; Vinh her gang member ex-boyfriend who preys on Vietnamese families; Mai, an ambitious orphan who faces her emancipation from the American foster-care system: and Huan, an Amerasian adopted by a white family, who returns to Vietnam with his adoptive mother."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Phan, Aimee
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3616.H36
- LC item number
- W4 2004
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
- Orange County (Calif.)
- Vietnamese Americans
- Refugees
- Adoptees
- Orphans
- Adoptees
- Orphans
- Refugees
- Vietnamese Americans
- California
- Vietnam
- Label
- We should never meet : stories, Aimee Phan
- Link
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Miss Lien -- We should never meet -- The delta -- Visitors -- Gates of Saigon -- Emancipation -- Bound -- Motherland
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (243 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)865109237
- Label
- We should never meet : stories, Aimee Phan
- Link
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Miss Lien -- We should never meet -- The delta -- Visitors -- Gates of Saigon -- Emancipation -- Bound -- Motherland
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (243 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)865109237
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