Leaving Vietnam
Leaving Vietnam is the compelling autobiography of Minh Thanh Nguyen, whose childhood and adolescence coincided with the Vietname War and the Communist takeover after the fall of Saigon. Nguyen grew up in a war zone where he and his friends threw unexploded shells on open fires, just for fun. They later joined gangs that waylaid drunken American soldiers leaving them with nothing on but their dogtags. Despite all this turmoil, life had its moment...