Vietnamerica: The War Comes Home

by Thomas A. Bass

Book Overview

The Vietnamese called the Amerasian children of U.S. servicemen bui doi, "the dust of life." Half American and half Asian, they had been abandoned by their fathers to a xenophobic society that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156947088X
• ISBN13: 9781569470886
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Captures the issues that faced and still face Amerasians

This well-written book does a good job of accurately capturing the plight of the Amerasians from Vietnam. Great descriptions of characters in Utica, NY and how they changed and/or stayed the same since their time in Amerasian Park in Saigon. Having visited Amerasian Park, I thought of the book and the many other Amerasians that are still in other parts of Vietnam and have been trying to leave.Vietnamerica shows the challenges the Vietnamericans face, what they think and feel, and the way in which many of them have to deal with not finding their fathers even though they made it back to the U.S.A. Thought-provoking and informative.