Her brother Tâm was born in a Malaysian refugee camp in 1978, the year that the Buis fled from Việt Nam.Īfter each of the Bui siblings is introduced, the narrative moves in and out of distinct time periods in the life of the family, as well as the individual lives of Hắng and Nam. After that, Bích was born in Sài Gòn in 1968, followed by the stillbirth of Thảo in Sài Gòn in 1974. Then, Lan was born in 1966 in the Mekong Delta. Quyên did not live for more than a month. First, there was the birth of Quyên in Sài Gòn in 1965. We hear about the births of each of the Bui children in Vietnam.
Within these two brackets, the narrative covers the lives of Thi’s mother, Hắng, and her father, Nam-as well as the story of the Bui family’s escape from Việt Nam during the Vietnam War. The book begins and ends with a depiction of the birth of Thi’s son.
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