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swimmingwolf59's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Pregnancy and Infidelity
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Miscarriage
wanderlust_romance's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: War
Moderate: Medical content, Xenophobia, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Violence
Minor: Child death, Physical abuse, and Infidelity
drraytay's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Violence, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Death, Child death, Rape, Abandonment, War, Colonisation, and Miscarriage
Minor: Fire/Fire injury
nitar8's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Child death, Colonisation, War, Emotional abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, Classism, Abandonment, Death, and Miscarriage
paigehf's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Pregnancy and Miscarriage
Moderate: Death, Child death, Child abuse, and War
Minor: Racism
njh_books's review against another edition
5.0
Heartbreaking but also hopeful. The last scene with the son is truly thought provoking and beautiful.
My knowledge of Vietnam improved with this story as often events were discussed that I then looked into on my own.
Graphic: Torture, Violence, Colonisation, Child death, Chronic illness, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Medical content, Death, Xenophobia, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Miscarriage
lprongs's review against another edition
Moderate: Pregnancy, Death, Miscarriage, and War
Minor: Xenophobia, Vomit, Racial slurs, and Racism
koreanlinda's review against another edition
4.25
I learned a lot about what Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans went through in the last few generations. I recommend coupling this book with Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna, which talks about a painful part of Cambodian history around a similar time as this book.
Review by Linda (Any Pronouns) in Feb 2024
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Graphic: Violence, Miscarriage, Colonisation, and War
Moderate: Genocide, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse
caoxtina's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Violence and War
Moderate: Rape, Child death, and Miscarriage
kirkspockreads's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Gun violence, War, Violence, and Miscarriage
Moderate: Racial slurs, Murder, Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Abandonment, Abortion, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Grief, Racism, and Pregnancy