| Author | : Xuân-Lan Nguyễn |
| File Size | : 53,5 Mb |
| Publisher | : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 12 March 2015 |
| ISBN | : 9781631352379 |
| Pages | : 311 pages |
Legends of the Promised Land by Xuân-Lan Nguyễn Book PDF Summary
Legends of the Promised Land is the passionate memoir recounting the forced immigration of a Vietnamese family to the U.S., following the Vietnam war and the rise of communism in their homeland. In her own words, traditional aphorism, and the voices of her children and husband, the matriarch of the family describes her family’s inspirational realization of the American dream, beginning with her lone arrival in the U.S. as a penniless boat person. Xuan-Lan Nguyen tells how for six generations her hard-working family amassed wealth that was all lost when the Vietnamese Communists arrived in Saigon in 1975. Her husband, a well-known lawyer in Vietnam and a seventeen-year prisoner of the Vietnamese Communists, eventually joined her, becoming a writer and orator now living with his family in America. She says proudly, “We have three daughters, now three doctors in the medical field in the U.S.”