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Book Review of The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood

The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
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This book is at once difficult to read and hard to put down. This is an amzing story of an amerasion boy's childhood from the fall of Saigon until his exit, under a program that allowed the children of US servicemen to leave the country, in 1985. These children not only faced prejudice from the society in Vietnam as a whole but also from within their own families. I feel that this is definately part of our history as Americans and exposes yet another tragedy of war.