Chong, Denise

Chronicles the life of the Vietnamese girl whose image shocked the world when she was photographed in 1972, burned by napalm and running from her village; and discusses how the photograph affected American society's views of the war, how her life was changed after the picture was released, and how it still haunts her today.

A true story of the author's family--of her grandmother, brought from China as a young concubine by a sojourner to the New World, of the man's wife and children who would be left behind, and of the author's own discovery of those children six decades later.

Chronicles the life of the Vietnamese girl whose image shocked the world when she was photographed in 1972, burned by napalm and running from her village; and discusses how the photograph affected American society's views of the war, how her life was changed after the picture was released, and how it still haunts her today.