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The Secret History · Tartt
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The Unwanted
Kien Nguyen
2008 · Hachette+ORM · 370 pages · English
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975Vietnam War, 1961-1975Vietnamese AmericansVietnamese Personal narrativesNonfiction
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"In this memoir, the son of an anonymous American GI and a wealthy Vietnamese woman relives ten years of hell in South Vietnam after the fall of Saigon."* Saigon fell to the Viet Cong on April thirty, 1975. Kien Nguyen watched the last U.S. Army helicopter leave without him, without his brother, without his mother, without his grandparents. Left to a nightmarish existence in a violated and decimated country, Kien was more at risk than most because of his odd blond hair and his light eyes—because he was Amerasian. H…
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