vietnamese americans

Describes the experience of thirteen-year-old Dan Thuy Huynh and her family, recently come from Vietnam to live in San Diego, California, as they adapt to their life in a new country.

Yin, a girl from Vietnam, celebrates her first Thanksgiving when the neighbors invite her family over for dinner.

Brief introduction to Vietnamese Americans, their historical backgrounds, customs and traditions, their impact on society, and life in the United States today.

Discusses conditions in Vietnam, particularly after 1975, that led Vietnamese to leave the country, describes the difficulties these people faced, how they managed to immigrate to the United States and to keep their traditions alive in their new homeland.

Bich Nguyen chronicles her difficult coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she struggled to fit in as one of the few Vietnamese girls in her school, where she tried to adapt to the traditional American ideal of "normal.".

A young Vietnamese girl maintains her own cultural identity while struggling to adjust to the United States.

Focuses on a community of newly arrived Vietnamese in Galveston, Texas, and their struggle to adjust to the American way of life.

A young Vietnamese refugee, newly arrived in America with her father, struggles along with other family members to make sense of the past and adjust to life in the United States.

Fifteen-year-old Andy is often baffled by his girlfriend Kim's apparent coolness and rigidity until her tragic past is suddenly revealed.

The author, a young Vietnamese-American man, shares the story of his solo bicycle journey around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam, and discusses his search for cultural identity in the Vietnam of his childhood.