Miss Lein
“Why is all this blood coming from such a small girl? That’s probably why. Her body is still so young. It isn’t prepared for this. Little slut.” – I thought this would be and interesting discussion to the current debate of illegal abortion going on in our country.
“Unlike others in the village, their family valued daughters as highly as sons.”
“Her grandfather reminded Lein of their country’s long history of oppression and survival: first the Chinese, then the French, the Japanese, now each other.”
“it wouldn’t die, it had gotten angry at the herbs Lein ingested” – Sparks discussion of legal/illegal abortion (baby was four months) and the lengths some woman go to & their motivations for doing so.
We Should Never Meet
“Vihn’s situation was similar, though he arrived later as an unaccompanied minor with the boat refugees” – connection to The Beautiful Country.
“Kim. I told you before there are private agencies you can go to if you want to find your American father.” – connection to The Beautiful Country.
The Delta
(Truc and Phuong) “They had long agreed that their children needed to understand the land they lived in and the poverty that most of their countrymen suffered.”
“They prided themselves for having dreams so outrageously against tradition.” – generational conflicts
Visitors
Gates of Saigon
Emancipation
Bound
Motherland
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