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The Daughters Of Two Homelands: An Epic Family Saga of Love, Sacrifice, and the Search for Belonging Across Generations
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ISBN13: 9798189854125
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 30 2026
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 30 2026
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
One night on the water, a mother had to split her three daughters between two boats. She spent the next forty-four years never knowing if she'd saved the wrong one.
Saigon is falling. On a chaotic beach in the last spring of the war, Mai makes the unthinkable calculation every refugee mother dreads: she sends her fragile infant onto the safe first boat in a trusted neighbor's arms, keeping her older girls beside her - only to learn, out on the open sea, that the safe boat was the one turned back. Two daughters reach America. One is lost to the homeland they fled. And the only thread binding them across the ocean is a pair of jade combs - two cranes, split between two babies, one kept and one carried backward across the water.
Saigon is falling. On a chaotic beach in the last spring of the war, Mai makes the unthinkable calculation every refugee mother dreads: she sends her fragile infant onto the safe first boat in a trusted neighbor's arms, keeping her older girls beside her - only to learn, out on the open sea, that the safe boat was the one turned back. Two daughters reach America. One is lost to the homeland they fled. And the only thread binding them across the ocean is a pair of jade combs - two cranes, split between two babies, one kept and one carried backward across the water.
Forty-four years later, in a quiet house in California, a granddaughter opens a drawer that was never meant to be opened - and finds a single jade crane with no mate, and a photograph of three babies where the family only ever spoke of two. From a river village in old Vietnam to the refugee camps, from Little Saigon to the Mekong Delta, this is the story of the daughters two homelands made, and the impossible search to bring them home.
A sweeping, emotional multigenerational story of love, sacrifice, loss, resilience, and the search for where we truly belong. For readers who were moved by Pachinko, The Joy Luck Club, and We Were the Lucky Ones.
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A sweeping, emotional multigenerational story of love, sacrifice, loss, resilience, and the search for where we truly belong. For readers who were moved by Pachinko, The Joy Luck Club, and We Were the Lucky Ones.
Scroll up and start reading today.
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