Phan Que Mai Nguyen
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
541 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Description
"In 1969, sisters Trang and Quynh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village to work at a bar in Sai Gon. Once in the big city, the young girls are thrown headfirst into a world they were not expecting. They learn how to speak English, how to dress seductively, and how to drink and flirt (and more) with American GIs in return for money. As the war moves closer to the city, the once-innocent Trang gets swept up in an...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The multigenerational tale of the T`rân family, set against the backdrop of the Vˆit Nam War. T`rân Diêu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Nôi, her young granddaughter, Huong, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the ˆHò Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that will tear not just her...