{"product_id":"the-saigon-sisters-9781501749735","title":"The Saigon Sisters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recording the histories and putting them to print, Patricia Norland succeeded in capturing an important slice of history and the very personal story of exemplary women.\u003c\/p\u003e * Foreign Service Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo put it mildly, these stories are gripping.\u003c\/p\u003e * Green Left *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a well-written, incredibly valuable book. Highly recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Norland] gives [these women] a platform to talk directly to the reader[,] thereby revealing the women's double and even multiple lives, full of contradiction and inner conflicts caused by the complexity and long duration of the war years. \u003ci\u003eThe Saigon Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e is a substantial collection of thoughts, memories, moments of pain and joy in individual lives.\u003c\/p\u003e * Asian Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe literature on the war in Vietnam includes hundreds of first-person sources by men on all sides in the conflict, but fewer than a dozen books about women are in print. Thus this collection of oral history interviews by Norland (formerly, US Department of State) is an important contribution.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is quite easy, and motivating as well, to imagine a course on Vietnamese history after World War II that includes only work by women and with \u003ci\u003eThe Saigon Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e as a pivotal work connecting them all. As Norland's powerful oral-history recounting of the lives of this 'band of sisters' demonstrates, friendship and independence required vigilance but endured despite decades of war.\u003c\/p\u003e * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo read a good group biography is to come out with a different level of appreciation for the ways, trivial and tremendous, that humans influence one another... Norland tells the stories of nine [Vietnamese women] who chose to stay, and who, after spending their childhoods secretly dreaming of Vietnamese independence, found surprising ways into the resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Atlantic *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Thanh: \"Our Hearts Beating for the Cause\"\u003cbr\u003e 2. Trang: \"Living a Contradiction\"\u003cbr\u003e 3. Minh: \"Generation at a Crossroads\"\u003cbr\u003e 4. Le An: \"The University of Life\"\u003cbr\u003e 5. Sen: \"A Question of Habit\"\u003cbr\u003e 6. Tuyen: \"A Chance to Succeed\"\u003cbr\u003e 7. Lien An: \"Deep Down, We Remain Vietnamese\"\u003cbr\u003e 8. Xuan: \"Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality Were Not for Our People\"\u003cbr\u003e 9. Oahn: \"I Did Not Become a Refugee\"\u003cbr\u003e 10. Tranh: \"We Are, After All, Human Beings\"\u003cbr\u003e 11. Trang: \"Prepared for Any Sacrifice or Risk\"\u003cbr\u003e 12. Minh: \"I Led Two Lives\"\u003cbr\u003e 13. Le An: \"The Theme of Our Work... Was Revolution\"\u003cbr\u003e 14. Sen: \"Working for the People, Not a Particular Party\"\u003cbr\u003e 15. Tuyen: \"Everyone Was Wrong\"\u003cbr\u003e 16. Lien An: \"We Understood What We Had to Do\"\u003cbr\u003e 17. Xuan: \"We Could Not Stay Indifferent\"\u003cbr\u003e 18. Oanh: \"French Are Very Nice in France and Very Colonialist in the Colonies\"\u003cbr\u003e 19. Reuniting\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409344143703,"sku":"9781501749735","price":32.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501749735.jpg?v=1730506493","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-saigon-sisters-9781501749735","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}