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Across The Mekong River (2012)

by Elaine Russell(Favorite Author)

4.36 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Createspace

review 1: A good story, many echoes of "The Spirit Catches You, and You Fall Down". Does a good job of conveying the horrors faced by the Hmong in escaping Laos, and the equally difficult journey through the refugee camps, and then trying to assimilate into American culture, which is equally heartbreaking, but in a very different way.There are multiple points of view - a father, mother and their daughter - which is important because of the very different impacts on each of their lives.
review 2: This book was sent to me at no cost from GoodReads. I really enjoyed reading Across the Mekong River. I often had to look at the first page of a chapter to see who was speaking since the whole book was written in first person. It is a very realistic and potent story about how ... morelives change through education, new environments, and growth of individuals.Across the Mekong River brought back a lot of memories for my husband and I since he spent two years in Vietnam as a soldier in the US Army. He made many friends there and sometimes wonders what happened after the US no longer sent troops there. Reading this wonderful novel gave us a lot of hope for some of those he knew.This was an emotional read for me, thinking about how different our world could be and how well most of those in the story handled their life altering changes. A very well written story and I highly recommend it to everyone. less

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