When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Phung Thi Le Ly
- First Published: 1989
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Rape, Women’s issues, Vietnam War, Peace, Torture, Southeast Asia
The Work
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman’s Journey from War to Peace, co-written with Jay Wurts, recounts Le Ly Hayslip’s life in war-ravaged Vietnam, her emigration to the United States in 1970, and her dangerous return visit to her homeland in 1986. As a young girl, Phung Thi Le Ly (her name before marriage) promises her father, a devote Buddhist farmer, that she will become a woman warrior. She interprets that charge to mean that she must stay alive in order to nurture other life and preserve her ancestral heritage. The memoir is her means...
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