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The House on Dream Street:
Dana Sachs
Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam
Seal Press
September 2003
On Sale: September 1, 2003
364 pages
ISBN: 1580051006
EAN: 9781580051002
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In this heartfelt memoir, Dana Sachs takes the reader on a
sensual and textured voyage to a country most Americans
think about only in terms of war. A finalist for the
Independent Publisher Book Award, this deftly written
narrative reveals how Sachs settled in with slick,
warmhearted Tung and his quietly tenacious wife Huong in
Hanoi and made a place for herself in "enemy" territory.
With vivid descriptions of the community—the noodle stalls
and roaring motorcycles, the vestiges of French colonialism,
and the encroachment of glittering high-rises—Sachs explores
the tenuous balance between the traditions of old Vietnam
and a country in the throes of modernization. Sachs’s honest
depiction of her difficulties renders her triumphs and love
for the country and its people all the more poignant and
compelling. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.
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