Dust Child
A Novel
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 339 pages ; 24 cm
"An American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Viet Nam War that will reverberate throughout one another's lives"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Child of the enemy -- Returning to the land of fear -- An impossible choice -- A bird finding its nest -- The heat of Sài Gòn -- Sài Gòn tea -- A flash of hope -- Facing the consequences -- Behind the dark room -- The tree of love -- The secret -- The danger of fire -- The cost of hope the Laughing Buddha -- War and peace -- How to be a mother -- Finding a needle at the bottom of the ocean -- The past and the future -- Revenge and forgiveness -- Black against white -- Love and honor.
Subjects:
Children of military personnel -- Vietnam -- Fiction.
Amerasians -- Vietnam -- Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Children -- Fiction.
Abandoned children -- Vietnam -- Fiction.
Vietnamese Americans -- Fiction.
Families -- Vietnam -- Fiction.
Vietnam -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Children of military personnel -- Vietnam -- Fiction.
Amerasians -- Vietnam -- Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Children -- Fiction.
Abandoned children -- Vietnam -- Fiction.
Vietnamese Americans -- Fiction.
Families -- Vietnam -- Fiction.
Vietnam -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781643752754