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TigerFish: A Memoir of a South Vietnamese Colonel's Daughter and her coming of age in America
Written by Hoang Chi Truong
Narrated by Hoang Chi Truong
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A memoir of a South Vietnamese Colonel's daughter, chronicling the tumultuous years growing up in the war-torn country of Vietnam, and the abrupt and brutal regime change that forced her disruptive and disorienting coming of age between two vastly different cultures.
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