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Tigerfish: A Memoir of a South Vietnamese Colonel's Daughter and Her Coming of Age in America

Tigerfish: A Memoir of a South Vietnamese Colonel's Daughter and Her Coming of Age in America

Truong, Hoang Chi

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Biographies GeneralAsian American Studies

Publisher Price: $14.99

ISBN10: 0999162705
ISBN13: 9780999162705
Publisher: Hoangchi T Smith
Published: Oct 1 2018
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

At thirteen, Hoàng Chi narrowly escapes to America with her family to avoid persecution at the fall of Saigon. Years later, the author recounts her war-torn childhood and harrowing refugee journey in her memoir TigerFish in the form of a letter to her daughter.

The author chronicles her childhood in Vietnam and her coming of age story as she and her family grapple with the loss of their national identity and the challenges of acculturation as refugees in America. It offers poignant passages through the innocent eyes of a teenager, witnessing the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese diaspora, and the jarring acculturation process that follows - all from her deeply personal and honest perspective. Hoàng Chi eventually discovers her inner TigerFish in America and reconciles conflicting cultural expectations - between home and school, east and west, Confucian traditionalism and Western modernity.

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