Out of the Dragon's Mouth, by Joyce Burns Zeiss
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After the fall of South Vietnam, fourteen-year-old Mai, a young Vietnamese girl of Chinese descent, is torn from a life of privilege and forced to flee across the South China Sea in the hold of a fishing trawler. Mai finds tenuous safety in a refugee camp on an island off the coast of Malaysia, where a greedy relative called Small Auntie offers her a place to stay―but her hospitality isn’t free. With her father’s words “You must survive” echoing in her ears, Mai endures the hardships of the camp, which are tempered only by her dreams of being sponsored by her uncle for entry into America.
But when an accident forces Mai to leave the safety of Small Auntie’s family, she meets Kien, a half-American boy who might be the only person who can keep her alive until she’s sent to the United States.
Coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Out of the Dragon’s Mouth is a poignant look into life ripped apart by the ravages of war.
Praise:“Given the dearth of material about the exodus of the families that supported democracy in Vietnam, this novel has value in helping to bring home to modern readers the great costs they suffered.”―Kirkus Reviews
“This well-written…story puts emotions and a face to the word “refugee.”―School Library Journal
Out of the Dragon's Mouth, by Joyce Burns Zeiss- Amazon Sales Rank: #485517 in Books
- Brand: Zeiss, Joyce Burns
- Published on: 2015-03-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .50" w x 5.20" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
About the Author
Joyce Burns Zeiss (Chicago, IL) has always wanted to be a writer. After retiring from teaching junior high school, she became a member of the Off Campus Writers Workshop in Winnetka, Illinois. Her experiences resettling a Chinese Cambodian refugee family in 1979 and her subsequent trips to work in refugee camps in Africa fueled her interest in the plight of the refugee. Her first novel, Out of the Dragon’s Mouth, is based on the true-life experiences of a fellow teacher who fled Vietnam as an adolescent to cross the South China Sea in the hold of a fishing boat. To learn more, visit her website at www.joyceburnszeiss.com.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Between escape and redemption By M. Kelm I watched the fall of Saigon in "real time" on TV, read about the boat people, at the time lived in a State that provided resettlement for many of escapees, and did much reading in preparation for a recent trip to Vietnam. But, I had never read anything about the realities and circumstances of the "in between" so many experienced. This book carried me into that experience. I found myself feeling the angst, thirst, heat, betrayal and fear experienced by the main character. In the same circumstances, I am not so sure I could have maintained the persistent hope as did she. This is a "page turner."
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Important Book, Beautifully Written By Avid reader Joyce Burns Zeiss has written a unique and important book. All Americans are aware that many persons of Vietnamese descent live in our country. Most know that the vast majority are here subsequent to the tragedy of the long Vietnam War, but hardly any of us know the story of their flight from their native country, and especially that there was an interim period before they were approved to enter the U.S. Most of us have heard of "The Boat People," but few of us know what their journeys in those boats were like, and that many fled to Malaysia and offshore islands, where they lived for often long periods of time until their final trip across the Pacific. Few ever give a thought to what it is like to be a refugee from anywhere, or what everyday life was like for the Vietnamese escapees after the fall of Saigon.This is a book which should be read by every American—or any country to which these people came. Although it is written in the literary genre directed at young adult readership, it is written in a style which someone at any age can enjoy. It is so important that it should be read by everyone. I can see it easily becoming required reading for school classes. If it is not, it should be.While including the facts that filled the lives of so many young Southeast Asian people who fled their native lands after the war, it is filled with rich imagery and compelling dialogue. One can feel the offshore breezes of the islands, relate the anxiety they felt as they faced an uncertain future, confront the superstitions of another culture, and understand their sense of loneliness as they left loved ones behind, not knowing their fate.Read this book!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Ms.Zeiss has done a great job of tying together the struggles many faced during ... By Ann T. Ingram Well written, with a point of view we seldom read. Ms. Zeiss has done a great job of tying together the struggles many faced during this period in our not too distant past.
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