Synopses & Reviews
- SONG OF SAIGON was published in Warner Faith hardcover in 2/03, winning high praise from publications, including "Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and "Kirkus Reviews.- As relations thaw with Vietnam, books that capture the experiences of its people are increasingly well received. "The Unwanted (Little, Brown and Company, 2001) received national acclaim, the memoir "Catfish and Mandala (Picador USA, 2000) was named a "New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Atlantic Monthly, 1993) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.- Anh Vu Sawyer is a speaker, writer, and middle school math teacher. She and her husband, Philip Sawyer, work with REI Vietnam, an agency that provides professional assistance to Vietnam.- Co-author Pain Proctor, a former senior editor of "Parade, has previously collaborated on seven nonfiction books.
Synopsis
In riveting detail, Anh Vu Sawyer recounts a childhood hanging in the balance as the chaos of the Vietrnam War threatens to tear her family apart. From the nightly rocket attacks that left her family trembling in fear to her father's lost glory as one of Ho Chi Minh's cadre to her harrowing exodus to freedom from the rooftop of the American Embassy, this is an inspiring memoir of unshakeable faith and survival that comes full circle when she returns to Vietnam nearly 25 years later on a very personal humanitarian mission.