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The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood Book

Kien Nguyen grew up an outsider in his native land. His once prosperous family, thrust into poverty at the dawn of a new political regime, lived among neighbors who treated them as an unwelcome remnant of the colonialist past. Kien himself, a child of mixed race (his father was American), was among the most unwanted. Told with a stark, poetic brilliance, Kien's account of his early years-from the fall of Saigon, when at age eight he watched the last U.S. Army helicopter leave without him and his family, to his eventual escape-is a work of profound emotional resonance, at once harrowing and inspiring. The Unwanted unforgettably records a universal human experience played out in extreme circumstances: the forging of an identity, a life.Read More

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  • 0316284610
  • 9780316284615
  • Kien Nguyen
  • 4 July 2002
  • Little, Brown & Company
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 343
  • 1st Back Bay Pbk. Ed
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