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By Vu, Caroline2023., Guernica Editions Call No: QWF Fic Vu Edition: 1st ed.. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential prose; Volume: 211Summary Note: Beginning in Saigon during the Vietnam War and ending in present day New York, Catinat Boulevard tells the story of two friends Mai and Mai Ly. While Mai flirts with American GIs in rowdy bars along Catinat Boulevard, Mai Ly joins the communist resistance in the jungle. The story also follows Nat, Mai's half Vietnamese-half African-American son abandoned in a Saigon orphanage.
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By Boyko, John2021., Adult, Knopf Random Vintage Canada Call No: 959.70 B789d Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In time for the 45th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, and in the style of his book 'Blood and Daring: How Canada Fought the American Civil War' and 'Forged a Nation', John Boyko brings to light the little-known story of Canada's involvement in the American War in Vietnam. Boyko lives in Lakefield, ON. .
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2021., 02:59:22, Random House Canada Edition: Unabridged. Click to access digital title. Summary Note: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE Kim Thúy's Em is a virtuosic novel of profound power and sensitivity, and an enduring affirmation of the greatest act of resistance: love. In the midst of war, an ordinary miracle: an abandoned baby tenderly cared for by a young boy living on the streets of Saigon. The boy is Louis, the child of a long-gone American soldier. Louis calls the baby em Hồng, em meaning "little sister," or "beloved." Even though her cradle is nothing more than a cardboard box, em Hồng's life holds every possibility. Through the linked destinies of a family of characters, the novel takes its inspiration from historical events, from Operation Babylift, which evacuated thousands of biracial orphans from Saigon in April 1975, to the remarkable growth of the nail salon industry, dominated by Vietnamese expatriates all over the world. From the rubber plantations of Indochina to the massacre at My Lai, Kim Thúy sifts through the layers of pain and trauma in stories we thought we knew, revealing transcendent moments of grace and the invincibility of the human spirit. .
![Em [eAudiobook]](/Library/images/~imageCT103082.JPG "Em [eAudiobook]")
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c1995., Turner Pub. ; Distributed by Andrews and McMeel Call No: 975.3 A431o Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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[2003], p2002., Adult, Miramax Home Entertainment ; Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Quiet Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A story that led to the events of the United States military involvement in Vietnam. Here, a love triangle between a British journalist, his mistress, and a mysterious CIA operative evolves into a much greater mystery that eventually leads to murder and deception.
![The quiet American [DVD] (2002). Directed by Phillip Noyce.](/Library/images/~imageCT68712.JPG "The quiet American [DVD] (2002). Directed by Phillip Noyce.")
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-- Misfit's memoir of great books, punk rock, and the fight to fit in2020., Flatiron Books Call No: Bio T772s Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such as The Metamorphosis, The Scarlet Letter, The Iliad, and more, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration, feelings of isolation, teenage rebellion, and assimilation, all while attempting to meet the rigid expectations set by his immigrant parents. Appealing to fans of coming-of-age memoirs such as Fresh Off the Boat, Running with Scissors, or tales of assimilation like Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Displaced and The Refugees, this book explores one man's bewildering experiences of abuse, racism, and tragedy and reveals redemption and connection in books and punk rock. Against the hairspray-and-synthesizer backdrop of the '80s, he finds solace and kinship in the wisdom of classic literature, and in the subculture of punk rock, he finds affirmation and echoes of his disaffection. In his journey for self-discovery Tran ultimately finds refuge and inspiration in the art that shapes--and ultimately saves--him.
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2015., Adult, Freehand Books Call No: Fic McL Edition: Revised edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2015., Guernica Editions, Incorporated Call No: QWF Fic Vu Edition: First ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This story follows three generations of a Vietnamese family as they struggle through major events of the 20th century. From the War of Independence against the French colonial power to the Vietnam War, the novel depicts a family's resilience in the face of tragedy, as told through the voice of a young girl attempting to understand family scandals within an historical context. At the novel's core is the death from AIDS in the early 1980s of the narrator's half French, half Vietnamese cousin Daniel, a beautiful rebel who is stricken down following a summer escapade in Provincetown. His family of three generations of physicians cannot bear to call the disease by its true name. Daniel dies alone in his Montreal hospital room.
