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Song of Saigon: One Woman's Journey to Freedom
Song of Saigon One Woman's Journey to Freedom Author:Anh Vu Sawyer, Pam Proctor In the tradition of such acclaimed childhood memoirs as Andrew Grove's SWIMMING ACROSS and Kien Nguyen's THE UNWANTED comes the moving, true story of a young girl's life during the Vietnam War. The year is 1975. The place, Saigon, South Vietnam. Anh Vu Sawyer's family struggles to survive as the Vietnam War rages. In vivid and riveting detail,... more » the author recounts a childhood hanging in the balance as the chaos around her threatens to tear her family apart. From their everyday challenges to the events leading up to the day Saigon fell to a young woman's harrowing exodus to freedom, SONG of SAIGON is an inspiring memoir of unshakeable faith and survival that comes full circle when Anh Vu Sawyer returns to Vietnam nearly 25 years later on a very personal humanitarian mission.« less