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Vietnamese author Nguyen's follow-up to her PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award—winning The Mountains Sing is a book of searches. The child of a Vietnamese woman and a Black U.S. soldier, Phong was abandoned at birth at a Catholic orphanage and has been scorned since by his compatriots as the "dust of life." He wants desperately to find his father so that he can take his family to the United States. Dan is a white U.S...Log In or Sign Up to Read More