Intersecting lives of Vietnamese sisters, an American veteran, and an Amerasian man confront the Vietnam War’s lasting trauma across decades.
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Intersecting lives of Vietnamese sisters, an American veteran, and an Amerasian man confront the Vietnam War’s lasting trauma across decades.
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Finalist for the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. From the bestselling author of The Mountains Sing , a richly poetic and suspenseful saga about two Vietnamese sisters, an American veteran, and an Amerasian man whose lives intersect in surprising ways, set during and after the war in Việt Nam. pay off debts, leave their rural village to work at a bar in Sài Gòn. Once in the big city, the young girls are thrown headfirst into a world they were not expecting. They learn how to speak English, how ...
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Sexual content
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Bar-girl prostitution and GI romance; rape and sexual assault depicted
Violence & gore
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Wartime gun violence, blood, injury, and death; trauma aftermath
Profanity
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Occasional strong language
Substance use
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Heavy bar drinking central; drug use and abuse tied to trauma
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No evidence found in available sources
Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Vietnam War politics, racism, and colonial legacy are central
Self-harm / suicide
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Self-harm referenced amid PTSD and mental-illness themes
Abuse & suffering
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Rape, child abuse, racial violence, bullying, abandonment, coercion
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