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Goodbye Saigon

by Nina Vida
Lauren Tom
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Little Saigon, Westminster, California, 1993. Anh, a diminutive, self-promoting, brash, Vietnamese beauty, supports her ever-extending family on tips from a gambling lawyer, Upon his disappearance, Anh turns to his secretary Jana, a tough, self-sufficient Anglo I need of money as desperately as Anh. Together they set up a bogus law practice in Little Saigon in which Anh supplies the clients while Jana plays lawyer, Business thrives until the vicious Nep gang decides it wants a piece of their action. When a vet who knew Anh in Saigon comes to offer her a new life, Anh must first enlist Jana's aid in paying a blood debt owed to her past. In Goodbye, Saigon, Nina Vida has created a community of vivid unforgettable characters. Never has the experience of recent immigrants been portrayed with such love, such authenticity, such a tragicomic understanding of individuals forced to build a future in the country that has obliterated their past.

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Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc. Edition: Abridged

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  • File size: 82357 KB
  • Release date: September 15, 2009
  • Duration: 02:51:34

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  • File size: 82514 KB
  • Release date: September 15, 2009
  • Duration: 02:51:34
  • Number of parts: 3

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Little Saigon, Westminster, California, 1993. Anh, a diminutive, self-promoting, brash, Vietnamese beauty, supports her ever-extending family on tips from a gambling lawyer, Upon his disappearance, Anh turns to his secretary Jana, a tough, self-sufficient Anglo I need of money as desperately as Anh. Together they set up a bogus law practice in Little Saigon in which Anh supplies the clients while Jana plays lawyer, Business thrives until the vicious Nep gang decides it wants a piece of their action. When a vet who knew Anh in Saigon comes to offer her a new life, Anh must first enlist Jana's aid in paying a blood debt owed to her past. In Goodbye, Saigon, Nina Vida has created a community of vivid unforgettable characters. Never has the experience of recent immigrants been portrayed with such love, such authenticity, such a tragicomic understanding of individuals forced to build a future in the country that has obliterated their past.

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Fiction Literature