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100 1 $aPhan, Aimee.
245 10 $aWe should never meet :$bstories /$cAimee Phan.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c2004.
300 $a243 p. ;$c22 cm.
505 0 $aMiss Lien -- We should never meet -- The delta -- Visitors -- Gates of Saigon -- Emancipation -- Bound -- Motherland.
520 1 $a"The interlinked stories that make up We Should Never Meet alternate between Saigon before the city's fall in 1975 and present-day "Little Saigon" in Southern California - exploring the reverberations of the Vietnam War in a completely new light." "Intersecting the lives of eight characters across three decades and two continents, these stories dramatize the events of Operation Babylift, the U.S.-led evacuation of thousands of Vietnamese orphans to America just weeks before the fall of Saigon. Unwitting reminders of the war, these children were considered bui doi, the dust of life, and faced an uncertain, dangerous existence if left behind in Vietnam.".
520 8 $a"Four of the stories follow the saga of one orphan's journey from the points-of-view of a teenage mother, a duck farmer and a Catholic num from the Mekong Delta, a social worker in Saigon, and a volunteer doctor from America. The other four stories take place twenty years after the evacuation and chronicle the lives of four Vietnamese orphans now living in America: Kim, an embittered Amerasian searching for her unknown mother; Vinh her gang member ex-boyfriend who preys on Vietnamese families; Mai, an ambitious orphan who faces her emancipation from the American foster-care system: and Huan, an Amerasian adopted by a white family, who returns to Vietnam with his adoptive mother."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aHo Chi Minh City (Vietnam)$vFiction.
651 0 $aOrange County (Calif.)$vFiction.
650 0 $aVietnamese Americans$vFiction.
650 0 $aRefugees$vFiction.
650 0 $aAdoptees$vFiction.
650 0 $aOrphans$vFiction.
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