vietnamese americans

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.

Seventeen short stories blending Vietnamese folklore with American realities as Vietnamese refugees try to balance their traditions with American popular culture.

When his folks host a Vietnamese family that has come to settle in their town, Harvey enjoys Americanizing twelve-year-old Tuan.

Presents a memoir of the author's experiences as an immigrant from Vietnam, covering his family's escape from Communism only to land in squalid living conditions in Los Angeles, where Lac got involved in a gang culture before eventually finding success.

Teenage twins Sara and Sam investigate a young Vietnamese refugee hiding in an abandoned cabin and the mysterious disappearance of thoroughbred stallions from a neighbor's horse farm.

Presents twenty informational essays on the Vietnamese experience in America, first-person accounts by Vietnamese immigrants, and biographies of accomplished Vietnamese Americans, and includes an introduction, chronology, and list of further resources.

A young girl visits her grandmother in Vietnam, where her parents were born, and learns that she can call two places home. Presented in English and Vietnamese.

Discusses the Vietnam War and the experiences of Vietnamese Americans as they adapt to life in the United States.

A young Vietnamese American girl describes her family and school life, Saturday activities, and celebration of TET, the Vietnamese New Year.

From Andrew X. Pham, the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala, a son's searing memoir of his Vietnamese father's experiences over the course of three wars. Once wealthy landowners, Thong Van Pham's family was shattered by the tumultuous events of the twentieth century: the festering French occupation of Indochina, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the Vietnam War. Told in dazzling chapters that alternate between events in the past and those closer to the present, The Eaves of Heaven brilliantly re-creates the trials of everyday life in Vietnam as endured by one man, from the fall of Hanoi and the collapse of French colonialism to the frenzied evacuation of Saigon. Pham offers a rare portal into a lost world as he chronicles Thong Van Pham's heartbreaks, triumphs, and bizarre reversals of fortune, whether as a South Vietnamese soldier pinned down by enemy fire, a prisoner of the North Vietnamese under brutal interrogation, or a refugee desperately trying to escape Vietnam after the last American helicopter has abandoned Saigon.--From publisher description.