The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood by Kien Nguyen

The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood

Kien Nguyen

368 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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Saigon fell to the Viet Cong on April 30, 1975. Kien Nguyen watched the last U.S. Army helicopter leave without him, without his brother, without his mother, without his grandparents. Left to a nightmarish existence in a violated and decimated cou...

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Moods

emotional 71%
dark 57%
sad 57%
reflective 42%
challenging 28%
hopeful 28%
informative 14%
inspiring 14%

Pace

medium 85%
slow 14%

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