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Mai Nguyen leaves Vietnam in February 1975, just before the American withdrawal from Saigon, entering a “Little Saigon” community in Falls Church, Virginia. As she navigates life in America, diaries found in her mother’s dresser pull her back to the memories of her mother and grandmother, whose stories began in the rice fields of the Mekong Delta. The novel traces Mai’s coming‑of‑age journey, intertwining her modern American experience with Vietnamese myth and history, revealing the long‑simmering legacies of war and family secrets.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: Coming of Age/Childhood Coming of Age
Authors: Lan Cao
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