Phung Le Ly Hayslip was born in Vietnam in 1950. She is the author
of two memoirs—When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of
War, Woman of Peace—which were adapted into the film Heaven and
Earth by Oliver Stone. Since 1986, she has helped rebuild her
motherland through the two charitable organizations she
established. Her efforts now focus exclusively on supporting the
orphanages she founded in Vietnam.
Jay Wurts, an Air Guard pilot during the Vietnam War, has written
and edited a variety of books.
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“One of the most important books of Vietnamese American and Vietnam
War literature. . . . Moving, powerful.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen,
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer
“Should not be missed by anyone. . . . No one who reads it will
ever be able to think about the Vietnam War in quite the same way
again.” —The Washington Post
“A wonderful, wondrous book by a remarkable woman.” —Amy Tan,
author of The Valley of Amazement
“Touching and illuminating . . . A searing and human account.” —The
New York Times Book Review
“Riveting and historic. . . . Engrossing and beautifully told. . .
. Impossible to put down.”—San Francisco Chronicle
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