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Name: Escape from Saigon
Rating: 4.666666666666 (3 reviews)
Author: Andrea Warren

The book chronicles the life of an orphaned Amerasian boy born in Saigon, following his early childhood in Vietnam through the tumultuous years leading to his evacuation during Operation Babylift in 1975. It then traces his subsequent adoption by an American family in Ohio, detailing the cultural and emotional adjustments he faces as he integrates into a new life far from his homeland.

First publish date: 2004

Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography

Authors: Andrea Warren

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