G217 E-Reading Book Review of As the Heart bones break by Audrey Chin
Name of Book: As the Heart Bones Break Author: Audrey Chin ISBN: 978-9814484077 Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd Type of book: Vietnam, Vietnamese War, spying, hiding, leaving life behind, America, using, opportunities, never letting go, family secrets, generations, 1940s?-2000s? Year it was published: 2014 Summary: In Thong Tran's Vietnam, everyone is at war and no one is who they seem not his adopted father, a French civil servant, not his Blood Father, the Viet Cong rooster master, not his pro-American journalist tutor. Like them, the boy from the Mekong Delta cannot escape the war. And like them, he too must create shades of himself to survive. But even a conflicted heart needs a home. Thong yearns for a true father and a cause to give himself to. He chooses independence, liberty and happiness his tutor and the Viet Cong. Tragically, there s no independence, liberty or happiness at war s end. Re-invented as an American aerospace en...