My Vietnam, Your Vietnam by Nghia M. Vo, Christina Vo

3.8 AVERAGE

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3.0
challenging emotional tense slow-paced
I love memoirs but this one seemed distant to me. Maybe it’s because the father and the daughter were a little distant with one another in this piece, it translated over into the reading? I liked the two perspectives, and I think it was beautiful to read about heading to your mother country and having a child who also wants to visit it while finding their identities. I think the way father and daughter viewed Vietnam is of course, starkly different, given the circumstances they were there for, birth to escape, and job opportunities and self-journeys. 

I wanted a little more.