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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emotional 80%
dark 60%
sad 60%
hopeful 40%
reflective 40%
challenging 20%
informative 20%

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slow 20%

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