The Unwanted A Memoir

Australian release of book first published in the USA in 2001. Memoir of the Vietnamese-American author's childhood in post-war Vietnam and his struggle to escape to America, the land of his father. Recounts the prejudice he encountered as the illegitimate son of an American father and a Vietnamese mother, and the poverty and degradation suffered by his family after the 1975 fall of Saigon. Author left Vietnam in 1985 through the United Nations' Orderly Departure Program. he now lives and works in the USA.