| International Standard Book Number |
9781668025567
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668025566
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| Personal Name |
Nguyen, Vicky, author.
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| Title Statement |
Boat baby : a memoir / Vicky Nguyen.
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| Edition Statement |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025
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| Physical Description |
x, 309 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Big tears, mountain view, CA 2019 -- The escape -- Huy Nguyen -- Army life -- Lien Do -- Miss Sai Gon -- Huy and Lien's "meet cute" -- Postwar hustle -- Boat people -- Destination USA -- Bossy in the biggest little city in the world -- The food truck -- Friends and foes -- What's in a name? -- Contemporary design furniture -- Running into the killer -- Growing up Asian/American -- Viet Kieu heading home -- Family a.k.a. Gia Dinh -- Bac Lieu and french fries -- The vet intern -- Mischief and misdemeanors -- Boys -- Cheerleading -- High school sweethearts -- Go Dons! -- The intern -- Let's make a deal -- Absolute rookie -- One-man band -- Distance makes the heart grow fonder -- Reno part deux -- But it's a dry heat -- The hot intern -- April fools' -- Dutiful daughter -- All together now -- No pain, no gain -- Me too? -- Heartbeats -- Baby time -- Breastfeeding barracuda -- Sysco not Cisco -- Torn -- Show me the money -- Stars align -- Tsunami -- The blow up before the glow up -- 30 Rock -- Pura vida -- The viruses -- The dream team.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Starting in 1975, Vietnam’s 'boat people' — desperate families seeking freedom — fled the Communist government and violence in their country any way they could, usually by boat across the South China Sea. Vicky Nguyen and her family were among them. Attacked at sea by pirates before reaching a refugee camp in Malaysia, Vicky’s family survived on rations and waited months until they were sponsored to go to America. But deciding to leave and start a new life in a new country is half the story . . . figuring out how to be American is the other. Boat Baby is Vicky’s memoir of growing up in America with unconventional Vietnamese parents who didn’t always know how to bridge the cultural gaps. It’s a childhood filled with misadventures and misunderstandings, from almost stabbing the neighborhood racist with a butter knife to getting caught stealing Cosmo in the hope of learning Do You Really Think You Know Everything About Sex? Vicky’s parents approached life with the attitude, 'Why not us?' In the face of prejudice, they taught her to be gritty and resilient, skills Vicky used as she combatted stereotyping throughout her career, fending off the question 'Aren’t you Connie Chung?' to become a leading Asian American journalist on television. She delivers a uniquely transparent account of her life, revealing how she negotiated her salary in a competitive industry, the challenges of starting a family, and the struggle to be a dutiful daughter. Funny, nostalgic, and poignant, Boat Baby is a testament to the messy glue that bonds a family." --publisher's website.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Nguyen, Vicky.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Journalists United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Immigrants United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Television news anchors United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women journalists United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Refugees Vietnam Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women television news anchors United States Biography.
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Vietnamese United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Southeast Asians United States Biography.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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