South Wind Changing
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.45 (852 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1555973051 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 305 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Next, he made his way to the U.S., where he worked at a series of low-paying jobs and dealt with culture shock. Another miracle provides the wonderfully satisfying conclusion to his memoir: Huynh received a scholarship to Bennington College in 1984 and has recently earned a Masters in Fine Arts from Brown University. His simple but powerful story is given added poignance by Huynh's recollections of the family, the life and the land he had to leave. . There he worked as a part-time janitor. Virtually homeless with two brothers and a nephew in his charge, Huynh wandered the country until he found himself in Bennington, Vt., where he felt welcome and secure. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Joining the "boat people" of Vietnam, he ended up in a refugee camp in Thailand after a series of ordeals that included an ugly confrontation with pirates. Huynh's engaging me
Here, where he first learned English while working at McDonalds, he was finally able to complete his education. A Time magazine "Best Book" of 1994This is the compelling personal narrative of Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh, who was born in South Vietnam in 1958. South Wind Changing tells the riveting story of this early existence, his escape from Vietnam, his time in a Thai refugee camp, and the eventual new life he was able to carve out for himself in the United States. In this well-written Asian-American memoir we
"Five Stars" according to JB in Eugene. Great read.. A harrowing escape. The author was a college student when the communists invaded Saigon and sent him to a reeducation camp. He was neither a politician nor a military man. There he witnessed the cruelty of the wardens who starved, beat, and killed prisoners whenever they liked it. He was able to escape. This Wind Cries Unmerrily This is a powerful story of survival and eventually escape from the jungle re-education camps of post-war Viet Nam.See, perhaps for the first time, the untold side of this tragic piece of history. Huynh's prose is precise and poetic, at times transcending the brutal realism of the s