The Unwanted, (Paperback)

from TimBazzett

This book is a revelation in its unflinching look at the awful life of an Amerasian boy left behind by his American father after the fall of Saigon. Kien Nguyen is one of two "half-breed" sons his mother bore, and feels the stigma and lives the horror of that awful stigma for the first 17-plus ye...

from bookalover89

A haunting memoir of a childhood during the Vietnam war. Very painful read.

from tshiroma

This book, The Unwanted by Kien Nguyen, was a memoir of his struggle to get away from the communists in Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon . I talks about from when he was a young boy, and he was part of a rich family and provided with anything and everything he needed, to when the communists came...

from meitel1551

This is an amazing biography and story. It is about the authors struggle to escape Vietnam as a child. As you read this, the author begins as a child and as he grows, so does the reader. The reader at first is just taken into this little boy's story, stuck in Vietnam. But as he begins to understa...

from caroren

Written by a young Ameriasian blond haired, blue eyed boy who is born in Saigon right before the Am ericans leave Saigon and South Vietnam falls to the Communist. He and his family are left in Vietnam to struggle to stay alive and to deal with the prejudice that his appearance attracts. His only ...