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Boat People

By: Joyce Thompson
Narrated by: Tamara Marston
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Ten years after the fall of Saigon, a tentative friendship blossoms between a Portland writer and the Vietnamese woman who sells her morning coffee and cigarettes, framing a powerful and original meditation on class, gender, and the power of storytelling to heal the wounds of war.

©1990 Joyce Thompson (P)2016 Audible, Inc. Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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I wish I could unhear the twenty-six minutes of this short audio. I was looking forward to some insight and understanding from discussions between the writer and the Vietnamese woman from whom she bought her morning coffee. It wasn't there. What WAS there was a tirade of hate, discrimination and downright disgusting stories unfit for anyone to hear (razor blades inside women's vaginas 😫😲). There was nothing in this very brief tale that was healing or memorable.

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