Against the Wild Wind: A Memoir of Love, Sacrifice, and a Daughter's Search for a Missing Journey

By Giana Nguyen-Utgaard

Against the Wild Wind is a biographical memoir from the daughter of renowned performing artists of the famed French Grand Theatre during the 1940's in Hanoi, Vietnam. In this engaging memoir she uncovers her parents' golden past: from the height of their success on stage, their heady patriotic fervor, to the true depth of their sacrifice they endured in the midst of decades of political instability and radical social changes in their beloved Vietnam during: the French occupation, WWII, the Vietnam War, and later the domination by communist ideology. Despite the burden of a challenging mental condition at an early age her mother, an artist endowed with talent, beauty and relentless courage, is compelled to put her family before her own passion.In America, while caring for her mother, the daughter is urged into a complicated search to understand her emotionally absent mother and for clarity in her own dilemma as caregiver. This quest answers many questions about her own missing journey.The surprising reward for her perseverance is the golden nugget the readers will find in this highly affecting account of love, determination, and a mother-daughter's amaranthine devotion.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BDNJCZX5
• ISBN13: 9798985309003
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Nguyen-Utgaard
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"