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Book Review of The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood

The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
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I found this book quite fasnating as I was in high school at the heighth of the Viet Nam war and in the Air Force at the end of it. This is a true story.

Kien had Vietnamese mother and American Father. His family was once wealthy but thrust into poverty by the War. He told about how he was an outcast. At 8 he watched the last American helicopters leave. He eventually escaped. He is now a dentist in New York.