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TigerFish: A Memoir of a South Vietnamese Colonel's Daughter and her coming of age in America

by Hoang Chi Truong

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A memoir of a South Vietnamese Colonel's daughter, chronicling the tumultuous years growing up in the war-torn country of Vietnam, and the abrupt and brutal regime change that forced her disruptive and disorienting coming of age as a refugee in the U.S. when she had to navigate between two vastly different cultures.… (more)
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nonfiction; family memoir
A family history documenting the author's experiences growing up in 1960s S. Vietnam, becoming a refugee in '75, coming to US at age 13 and adjusting to American culture/life as a teen. I wish I had as thoughtful a record for my own family's history. ( )
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A memoir of a South Vietnamese Colonel's daughter, chronicling the tumultuous years growing up in the war-torn country of Vietnam, and the abrupt and brutal regime change that forced her disruptive and disorienting coming of age as a refugee in the U.S. when she had to navigate between two vastly different cultures.

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