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Escape from Saigon
How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy
About the Book
It''s April 1975 and the armies of North Vietnam are pushing into South Vietnam, leaving death and destruction in their wake. In a Saigon orphanage, eight-year-old Long waits and worries. He is a mixed-blood child, the son of a white American father and a Vietnamese mother. What kind of future can he have in a country ruled by North Vietnam-America''s enemy? His only hope of escaping Saigon is via Operation Babylift-the U.S. government''s rescue effort to airlift children like him out of harm''s way. A family in Ohio is waiting to adopt Long. But if he leaves, will he ever see his home and his grandmother again?
Award-winning author Andrea Warren -whose own adopted daughter was one of 2,300 orphans brought to safety through Operation Babylift- shares the true story of Long''s journey from war-ravaged Vietnam to his new life in America''s heartland, and ultimately to his return to Saigon to make peace with his past.
