{"id":15163,"date":"2011-07-27T23:02:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T23:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15163"},"modified":"2014-12-16T21:35:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T21:35:23","slug":"escape-from-saigon-how-a-vietnam-war-orphan-became-an-american-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15163","title":{"rendered":"Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR Paper (an imprint of Macmillan<\/a>)
\nSeptember 2008
\n128 pages
\n7 1\/2 x 9 1\/4 inches
\nGrade Range: 5 and up, Age Range: 10 and up
\nISBN: 978-0-374-40023-1, ISBN10: 0-374-40023-7<\/p>\n

Andrea Warren<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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An unforgettable true story of an orphan caught in the midst of war<\/p>\n

Over a million South Vietnamese<\/a> children were orphaned by the Vietnam War<\/a>. This affecting true account tells the story of Long, who, like more than 40,000 other orphans, is Amerasian\u2014a mixed-race child\u2014with little future in Vietnam<\/a>. Escape from Saigon<\/em> allows readers to experience Long’s struggle to survive in war-torn Vietnam, his dramatic escape to America as part of “Operation Babylift<\/a>” during the last chaotic days before the fall of Saigon<\/a>, and his life in the United States as “Matt,” part of a loving Ohio<\/a> family. Finally, as a young doctor, he journeys back to Vietnam, ready to reconcile his Vietnamese past with his American present.<\/p>\n

As the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War approaches, this compelling account provides a fascinating introduction to the war and the plight of children caught in the middle of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR Paper (an imprint of Macmillan) September 2008 128 pages 7 1\/2 x 9 1\/4 inches Grade Range: 5 and up, Age Range: 10 and up ISBN: 978-0-374-40023-1, ISBN10: 0-374-40023-7 Andrea Warren An unforgettable true story of an orphan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1245,11,8,17,20],"tags":[7007,514,1130],"class_list":["post-15163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-biography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-andrea-warren","tag-macmillan","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}