Title: Remarkable accounts of the Vietnamese boat people following "the war."
Product review: This is a rare book which accounts 19 remarkable stories of despair, escape, survival and eventual integration in America by the Vietnamese boat people during the aftermath of "the war." All stories were based on actual experiences of the refugees themselves who went through amazing ordeals of escaping the Communist regime and facing the dangers at sea, trying to find freedom and a new home. Although 17 out of the 19 stories were not personally written by the refugees themselves and that the voices of the people in my opinion were greatly oversimplified, the author is acknowledged for her effort to compile this list of stories together so that this phenomenon, unknown to many people in the world, is not to be obsolete (thank you for writing this book). I recommend this book to anyone interested in the Vietnamese or Vietnamese-American culture.
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