Three Funerals for My Father: Love, Loss and Escape from Vietnam
Autor Jolie Phuong Hoangen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 oct 2021
What would you risk to save your children?
Jolie Phuong Hoang grew up as one of ten children, part of a loving, prosperous Vietnamese family. All that changed after the communists took over in 1975. Identified as a potential “bad element,” the family lived in constant fear of being sent to the dreaded new economic zone.
Desperate to ensure the family’s safety and to provide a future for his children, Jolie’s father arranged three separate escapes. The first was a failure that cost most of their fortune, but the second was successful—six of his children reached Indonesia and ultimately settled in Canada. He and his youngest daughter drowned during the disastrous third attempt. Told from the author’s perspective and that of her father’s ghost, Three Funerals for My Father is a poignant story of love, grief and resilience that spans three countries and fifty years.
In an era when anti-Asian racism is on the rise and the issue of human migration is front-page news, Three Funerals for My Father provides a vivid and timely first-hand account of what it is like to risk everything for a chance at freedom. It is at once an intimate story of one family, a testament to the collective experience of the “boat people” who escaped communist Vietnam, and a plea on behalf of the millions of refugees currently seeking asylum across the globe.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781990160042
ISBN-10: 1990160042
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Editura: Tidewater Press
Colecția Tidewater Press
Locul publicării:New Westminster, Canada
ISBN-10: 1990160042
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Editura: Tidewater Press
Colecția Tidewater Press
Locul publicării:New Westminster, Canada
Cuprins
Chapter 1 My First Funeral
Chapter 2 June Sisters
Chapter 3 The Tiger
Chapter 4 A Bowl of Soup
Chapter 5 War
Chapter 6 The Land of Mimosas
Chapter 7 Peace and Fire
Chapter 8 The Rooster
Chapter 9 The Oil Lamp
Chapter 10 The Rice Chest
Chapter 11 A Postcard from Germany
Chapter 12 Feast for the Dead
Chapter 13 Rough Waters
Chapter 14 Trại Mát
Chapter 15 Vượt Biên
Chapter 16 The Đề Lô
Chapter 17 What If
Chapter 18 The Bodhisattva of Compassion
Chapter 19 MH2284
Chapter 20 Inflection Point
Chapter 21 Euler’s Identity
Chapter 22 The Land of the West
Chapter 23 Anchorless
Chapter 24 The Tears of Heaven
Chapter 25 The Butterflies
Chapter 26 My Second Funeral
Chapter 27 Parallel Worlds
Chapter 28 Pig Brains
Chapter 29 Legacy
Chapter 30 The Net of Fate
Chapter 31 My Third Funeral
Author’s Note and Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 June Sisters
Chapter 3 The Tiger
Chapter 4 A Bowl of Soup
Chapter 5 War
Chapter 6 The Land of Mimosas
Chapter 7 Peace and Fire
Chapter 8 The Rooster
Chapter 9 The Oil Lamp
Chapter 10 The Rice Chest
Chapter 11 A Postcard from Germany
Chapter 12 Feast for the Dead
Chapter 13 Rough Waters
Chapter 14 Trại Mát
Chapter 15 Vượt Biên
Chapter 16 The Đề Lô
Chapter 17 What If
Chapter 18 The Bodhisattva of Compassion
Chapter 19 MH2284
Chapter 20 Inflection Point
Chapter 21 Euler’s Identity
Chapter 22 The Land of the West
Chapter 23 Anchorless
Chapter 24 The Tears of Heaven
Chapter 25 The Butterflies
Chapter 26 My Second Funeral
Chapter 27 Parallel Worlds
Chapter 28 Pig Brains
Chapter 29 Legacy
Chapter 30 The Net of Fate
Chapter 31 My Third Funeral
Author’s Note and Acknowledgements
Recenzii
A story of love, grief and resilience that spans three countries and fifty years.
Jolie Phuong Hoang grew up as one of ten children, part of a loving, prosperous Vietnamese family. All that changed when the war ended in 1975. Anxious to provide a future for his children, Jolie’s father arranged three separate escapes. The first was a failure, but the second was successful—six of his children reached Indonesia and ultimately settled in Canada. In the third, disastrous attempt, he and his youngest daughter drowned.
Told from the author’s perspective and that of her father’s ghost, Three Funerals for My Father is at once an intimate story of one family, a testament to the collective experience of the "boat people" who escaped Vietnam, and a plea on behalf of the millions of refugees currently seeking asylum across the globe.
"Three Funerals for My Father is the powerful story of a family’s journey from Vietnam to Canada, lyrically told in three distinct voices. It is at once a heart-wrenching memoir and a reckoning of sorts—an unflinching view of the peril and terrible costs to one family making a journey as refugees to an unfamiliar land, uncertain of their welcome . . . Intimate and unforgettable." K.C. DYER
"Unlike most memoirs about the immigrant experience that center around overcoming hurdles to build a new life, Jolie Phuong Hoang instead structures Three Funerals For My Father around her father’s death as he tries to escape Vietnam by boat in 1985. Her younger sister also drowned on that journey. It takes Hoang three decades to come to terms with her father’s and sister’s deaths and her book tells their stories and how her father did whatever he could to bring his family to safer shores . . . Hoang’s memoir is a moving tribute to her father’s memory and the lengths he took to make sure his family was safe." SUSAN BLUMBERG KASON, Asian Review of Books
Jolie Phuong Hoang grew up as one of ten children, part of a loving, prosperous Vietnamese family. All that changed when the war ended in 1975. Anxious to provide a future for his children, Jolie’s father arranged three separate escapes. The first was a failure, but the second was successful—six of his children reached Indonesia and ultimately settled in Canada. In the third, disastrous attempt, he and his youngest daughter drowned.
Told from the author’s perspective and that of her father’s ghost, Three Funerals for My Father is at once an intimate story of one family, a testament to the collective experience of the "boat people" who escaped Vietnam, and a plea on behalf of the millions of refugees currently seeking asylum across the globe.
"Three Funerals for My Father is the powerful story of a family’s journey from Vietnam to Canada, lyrically told in three distinct voices. It is at once a heart-wrenching memoir and a reckoning of sorts—an unflinching view of the peril and terrible costs to one family making a journey as refugees to an unfamiliar land, uncertain of their welcome . . . Intimate and unforgettable." K.C. DYER
"Unlike most memoirs about the immigrant experience that center around overcoming hurdles to build a new life, Jolie Phuong Hoang instead structures Three Funerals For My Father around her father’s death as he tries to escape Vietnam by boat in 1985. Her younger sister also drowned on that journey. It takes Hoang three decades to come to terms with her father’s and sister’s deaths and her book tells their stories and how her father did whatever he could to bring his family to safer shores . . . Hoang’s memoir is a moving tribute to her father’s memory and the lengths he took to make sure his family was safe." SUSAN BLUMBERG KASON, Asian Review of Books