TY - BOOK AU - Nguyẽ̂n,Phan Qué̂ Mai TI - Dust child: a novel SN - 9781643752754 PY - 2023/// CY - Chapel Hill, North Carolina PB - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill KW - Children of military personnel KW - Vietnam KW - Fiction KW - Amerasians KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 KW - Children KW - Abandoned children KW - Vietnamese Americans KW - Families KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Novels N1 - Child of the enemy -- Returning to the land of fear -- An impossible choice -- A bird finding its nest -- The heat of Sài Gòn -- Sài Gòn tea -- A flash of hope -- Facing the consequences -- Behind the dark room -- The tree of love -- The secret -- The danger of fire -- The cost of hope the Laughing Buddha -- War and peace -- How to be a mother -- Finding a needle at the bottom of the ocean -- The past and the future -- Revenge and forgiveness -- Black against white -- Love and honor N2 - "An American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Viet Nam War that will reverberate throughout one another's lives"-- ER -