Three funerals for my father : love, loss and escape from Vietnam
Jolie Hoang grew up as one of ten children, part of a loving, prosperous Vietnamese family. All that changed when the communists took over in 1975; the family lived in constant fear of being sent to the dreaded “new economic zone.” Desperate to ensure the family's safety and to provide a future for his children, Jolie's father arranged three separate escapes. The first was a failure that cost most of their fortune, but the second was successful-six of his children reached Indonesia and ultimately settled in Canada. He and his youngest daughter drowned during the disastrous third attempt. Alternately told from the author's perspective and that of her father's ghost, Three Funerals for My Father is a poignant story of love, grief and resilience that spans three countries and fifty years. It is an intimate story of one family, a testament to the collective experience of the “boat people” who escaped communist Vietnam, and a plea on behalf of the millions of refugees currently seeking asylum across the globe.
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- ISBN: 9781990160042
- ISBN: 1990160042
- Physical Description 232 pages
- Publisher New Westminster, British Columbia : Tidewater Press, 2021.
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Table of Contents
Three Funerals for My Father : Love, Loss and Escape from Vietnam
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Chapter 1 | My First Funeral | p. 1 |
Chapter 2 | June Sisters | p. 12 |
Chapter 3 | The Tiger | p. 21 |
Chapter 4 | A Bowl of Soup | p. 31 |
Chapter 5 | War | p. 34 |
Chapter 6 | The Land of Mimosas | p. 43 |
Chapter 7 | Peace and Fire | p. 48 |
Chapter 8 | The Rooster | p. 51 |
Chapter 9 | The Oil Lamp | p. 54 |
Chapter 10 | The Rice Chest | p. 57 |
Chapter 11 | A Postcard from Germany | p. 61 |
Chapter 12 | Feast for the Dead | p. 65 |
Chapter 13 | Rough Waters | p. 75 |
Chapter 14 | Trai Mát | p. 84 |
Chapter 15 | Vuot Biên | p. 91 |
Chapter 16 | The Dê Lô | p. 97 |
Chapter 17 | What If | p. 108 |
Chapter 18 | The Bodhisattva of Compassion | p. 110 |
Chapter 19 | MH2284 | p. 122 |
Chapter 20 | Inflection Point | p. 137 |
Chapter 21 | Euler's Identity | p. 147 |
Chapter 22 | The Land of the West | p. 152 |
Chapter 23 | Anchorless | p. 162 |
Chapter 24 | The Tears of Heaven | p. 168 |
Chapter 25 | The Butterflies | p. 173 |
Chapter 26 | My Second Funeral | p. 185 |
Chapter 27 | Parallel Worlds | p. 191 |
Chapter 28 | Pig Brains | p. 198 |
Chapter 29 | Legacy | p. 204 |
Chapter 30 | The Net of Fate | p. 208 |
Chapter 31 | My Third Funeral | p. 212 |
Author's Note and Acknowledgements | p. 217 |