Uprootedthenovel

“At first they said bring food for ten days. But they kept me forever. No trial at all.” Kim's story is one that Uprooted touches on towards its conclusion. I met him at a family reunion in Florida a few years ago. We were in a small room, packed with forty people. Sunshine and laughter filled the air around us. A table creaked under its weight of food. People shouted to hear themselves above the excitable screams of a dozen children. Kim sat beside me. He was crying. Seeing

"My doctor told me to forget every bad thing in the past." It was not only Tung who had a difficult time as the interviews for Uprooted progressed. His brother, Co, also struggled with the stresses brought on by recalling the traumas of war. Co's experiences were, if anything, more acute. He fought for the ARVN [Army of the Republic of South Vietnam] from 1963 till 1970, before being transferred to training duties. Like his fellow northerners, who had fled Communist persecuti