Review by Library Journal Review
Hayslip, who grew up in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, here recounts her heart-rending experiences. A pawn of both sides in the conflict, she endures rape, torture, and imprisonment before fleeing to the United States. Told in a series of flashbacks during a return trip to her homeland in 1986, the account jumps abruptly from present to past and back again with little or no transitional bridges. Nancy Kwan provides an excellent reading, but despite her best efforts, the story line remains difficult to follow. Oliver Stone's recent film version of this story, starring Tommy Lee Jones as Hayslip's U.S. Marine husband ( Between Heaven and Earth ), may stir patron demand. Suitable for history and biography collections and wherever patron demand warrants.-- Miriam Kahn, Columbus, Ohio (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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