The List of Things Bought
Subtitle: Volume 1
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2012
Table of contents: title: In this true biography of Hanh Xiao Lin, kidnapped from her family in 1927 at the age of 6 near Shanghai and forced into a children's circus where she had to dance and care for infants purposefully deformed by forcing them to grow in clay urns, she finally escapes in her teens. Fate takes her to Vietnam where she marries one of the wealthiest men in Vietnam at that time. As war and communism spread through the region, they are forced to flee south to Saigon. After years of war and the French are driven out, the Americans take up the cause. But their lives and their fortune descend into despair. Hanh, her husband and their 8 children escape eventually and come to America. But not before the external threat of war and the internal threat of her own husband almost claim her life. Her story of perseverance and struggle through 80 years of the 20th Century to keep herself and her children alive is at once gut wrenching and inspiring. This is volume 1 of 2, available now on Amazon Kindle. Volume 2 will be available on Amazon Kindle by spring, 2013.