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The sympathizer

2015
Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.

Out of the dragon's mouth

2015
After the fall of South Vietnam, fourteen-year-old Mai is forced to flee to a refugee camp on an island off the coast of Malaysia, where she must navigate numerous hardships while waiting to be sponsored for entry into America.

Novel without a name

1996
After ten years of fighting for the Communist cause in North Vietnam, twenty-eight-year-old Quan returns home and encounters his father, his childhood sweetheart, and his boyhood friends, navigating a path through lingering patriotism, disillusionment, and lost innocence.

Another man's moccasins

2009
Walt Longmire, sheriff of Absaroka County, investigates the murder of a Vietnamese woman and discovers a homeless Crow Indian living in a culvert with the woman's purse, which contains a photograph that reminds him of his past as a Marine investigator in Vietnam.

Boat people

personal stories from the Vietnamese exodus 1975-1996
2013
A photographic exploration of the plight of Vietnamese refugees who left their country on boats from 1975 through 1996 in search of safety and freedom.

Zazoo

2001
Amid old secrets revealed and rifts healed, a thirteen-year-old Vietnamese orphan raised in rural France by her aging "Grand-Pierre" learns about life, death, and love.

Dan Thuy's new life in America

1992
Describes the experience of thirteen-year-old Dan Thuy Huynh and her family, recently come from Vietnam to live in San Diego, California, as they adapt to their life in a new country.

V?ro and Philippe

2001
When Mother fires the housekeeper life becomes difficult for the entire Vo family, Vietnamese immigrants to France in 1964, but eight-year-old Vero and her twelve-year-old brother, Philippe, work together to try to convince Mother to rehire her.

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