Two estranged Vietnamese sisters, each wrestling with their own lives, careers, and romances, are reunited at their father's American citizenship party, and forge a new relationship.
Saigon fell to the Viet Cong on April 30, 1975. Kien Nguyen was there. He watched the last U.S. Army helicopter leave without him, without his brother, without his mother, without his grandparents. Told with stark and poetic brilliance, this is a…
While riding through Ho Chi Minh City in a pedicab, or xich-lo, a visiting Vietnamese-American woman reminisces about her privileged childhood in the former Saigon, the effects of the Vietnamese War, and her feelings for her former and current…