![Cover image for Where the wind leads : a refugee family's miraculous story of loss, rescue, and redemption Cover image for Where the wind leads : a refugee family's miraculous story of loss, rescue, and redemption](/client/assets/5.1294/ctx//client/images/no_image.png)
Where the wind leads : a refugee family's miraculous story of loss, rescue, and redemption
Title:
Where the wind leads : a refugee family's miraculous story of loss, rescue, and redemption
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
A family's journey from pre-war Vietnam, through pirate attacks in the open sea, to a new home in Fort Smith, Arkansas, where poverty and discrimination could not prevent the author from graduating from Harvard Medical School.
Year Published:
2014
Physical Description:
xiii, 353 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
Contents:
Part one. The story begins -- A world on the edge -- A handful of rice -- Building an empire -- The Prince of Bac Lieu -- Assisted marriage -- The dragon lady -- Deception -- A national falls -- The farm -- Gathering storm -- Why me? -- No turning back -- Part two. First days at sea -- Pirates -- One man's burden -- Land at last -- Blood on the sand -- Sheltering angels -- The beach -- Betrayed -- Seasweep sets sail -- Endless sea -- The prayer -- Rescue -- Singapore bound -- 25 Hawkins Road -- Across the Pacific -- Part three. Walking up in America -- Allied gardens -- Starting school -- Grand avenue -- The factory -- The American dream -- Peer pressures -- The restaurant -- Ghosts of the past -- Flying blind -- Aiming for the stars -- Boy meets girl -- Special good friend -- Harvard -- Love story -- Cap and gown -- Giving back
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780849947568
9780718037499
Publisher:
Nashville, Tennessee : W Publishing Group, [2014]