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Pub. Date
2019.
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"Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"In 1975, three thousand children were airlifted out of Saigon to be adopted into Western homes. When Mindy, one of those children, announces her plans to return to Vietnam to find her birth mother, her loving adopted family is suddenly thrown back to the events surrounding her unconventional arrival in their lives. Though her father supports Mindy's desire to meet her family of origin, he struggles privately with an unsettling fear that he'll lose...
5) Journey home
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Mai returns to Vietnam, the land of her mother's birth, to discover both a new country and something about herself.
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Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1994
Description
While fly-fishing in Arkansas, Ben Kincaid lands an indefensible racist for a client For Ben Kincaid, the forests of Arkansas are a place to escape the hubbub of the courtroom and enjoy the outdoors. But for the thousands of Vietnamese refugees who came through this backwoods area in the mid-1970s, the Ouachita Mountains were a place to begin their new life in the United States. And for Tommy Vuong, an activist among the American-born Vietnamese,...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"From the critically acclaimed author of The Kiss Quotient comes a romantic novel about love that crosses international borders and all boundaries of the heart. Khai Diep thinks he's defective, but his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes returns to Vietnam to find the perfect bride"--
Khai Diep has no feelings. Oh, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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"Robert, an Oakland cop, still can't let go of Suzy, the enigmatic Vietnamese wife who left him two years ago. Now she's disappeared from her new husband, Sonny, a violent Vietnamese smuggler and gambler who's blackmailing Robert into finding her for him. As he pursues her through the sleek and seamy gambling dens of Las Vegas, shadowed by Sonny's sadistic son, "Junior, " and assisted by unexpected and reluctant allies, Robert learns more about his...
11) A different pond
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"As a young boy, Bao Phi 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. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Tuyet finds out that her Vietnamese family is having duck rather than turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, she is upset until she finds out that other children in her class did not eat turkey either.
Author
Publisher
Crown Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Told in alternating voices, seventeen-year-old Jane rails against her family's Vietnamese culture and struggles with a perpetually angry father, whose traumatic journey to the United States as an eleven-year-old refugee is revealed in flashbacks.
14) The mosquito war
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001
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...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"An epic tale of love, loyalty, and war from the acclaimed author of Monkey Bridge Half a century after it began, the Vietnam War still has a hold on our national psyche. Lan Cao's now-classic debut, Monkey Bridge, won her wide renown for "connecting . . . the opposite realities of Vietnam and America" (Isabel Allende). In her triumphant new novel, Cao transports readers back to the war, illuminating events central to twentieth-century history through...
Author
Series
Team Chu volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2023.
Description
"Popular athlete Clip is confident he'll take the prize, if it weren't for that Test of Humility. Meanwhile, his little sister, Sadie, finds herself being pulled into the immersive world of Pantaera and rising to meet the trails thrown her way, despite claiming not to care about the game. And her best friend. Jeremy, a proud nerd and usually the last to be picked in gym class, wants more than anything to save the world of the game he loves, no matter...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement. At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. Beth's mother stayed-or was left-behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Seventeen-year-old bisexual Jade Nguyen is spending the summer in Vietnam at the French colonial house her estranged father is fixing up as a vacation rental, but unbeknownst to her family, the house and its ghosts have other plans.
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