My Vietnam, Your Vietnam, Nghia M. Vo
My Vietnam, Your Vietnam, Nghia M. Vo
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My Vietnam, Your Vietnam
A Father Flees. A Daughter Returns. A Duel Memoir.

Author: Nghia M. Vo, Christina Vo

Narrator: Quyen Ngo

Unabridged: 9 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/11/2024


Synopsis

A chronicle of the divergent journeys of a father, who fled post-war Vietnam on a small boat to find refuge in the United States, and his American-born daughter, who ventures to Vietnam as an adult, capturing the stark contrast between their perspectives on their shared homeland, as they search for common ground and a path toward mutual healing.

“Combines the fraught tension of Ava Chin’s Mott Street and the tenderness of Elliot Tiber’s Taking Woodstock."—Kirkus Reviews

Reviews

Goodreads review by Linh on January 28, 2025

Such a wonderful book! We just came back from Vietnam and now I have a better understanding of perhaps my parents’ perspective of Vietnam and why the country has such a hold on my heart. Wonderful!......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on May 07, 2025

Dry eyes were hard to maintain while reading about memories of the war and family dynamics that hit close to home; it made me feel nostalgic for the Vietnam I know and the one I’ll only learn about through stories like these. The dual memoir style was innovative and intriguing as a concept, but ther......more

Goodreads review by Thanh on April 15, 2025

Christina Vo's book of My Vietnam, Your Vietnam is a dual memoir that explores her journey of connecting to her Vietnamese heritage and her father's journey to leaving behind his war-torn country and building a new life in a new country. It was so refreshing to read Mr. Nghia Vo's journey as it was......more

Goodreads review by Royal on June 29, 2024

Christina and Nghia Vo's My Vietnam, Your Vietnam is a father-daughter dual memoir about the father leaving Vietnam as a refugee and Christina returning in her adulthood. Christina writes about Vietnam with such wide-eye curiosity of her discoveries in Vietnam and a persistent longing for her dad’s......more

Goodreads review by Amy M. on January 24, 2024

My Vietnam, Your Vietnam sheds light on how the dichotomy of two lives can bring harmony and peace, dovetailing past and present with trauma and joy to unearth the meaning of forgiveness. A father sojourns to America where his future starts to only have his daughter sojourn back to Vietnam decades l......more