The Dust of Life
Subtitle: America's Children Abandoned in Vietnam
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9780295978369
Subjects: American history: Vietnam War; Asian / Middle Eastern history; Child & developmental psychology; Oral history; The Americas; Vietnam; Children's Studies; Military - Vietnam War; Minority Studies - Ethnic American; History - Military / War; Abandoned children; Amerasians; Children of military personnel; United States; Sociology
Description: "The Dust of Life is a collection of vivid and devastating oral histories of Vietnamese Amerasians. Abandoned during the war by their American fathers, discriminated against by the victorious Communists, and ignored for many years by the American government, they endured life in impoverished Vietnam. Their stories are sad, sometimes tragic, but they are also testimonials to human resiliency."--BOOK JACKET.

"Robert McKelvey is a former marine who served in Vietnam in the late 1960s. Now a child psychiatrist, he returned to Vietnam in 1990 to begin the long series of interviews that resulted in this book."--BOOK JACKET.