Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/nguyen-phan-que-mai/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 14 Mar 2023 16:08:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/nguyen-phan-que-mai/ 32 32 38398750 Dust Child https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/dust-child/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/dust-child/#comments Tue, 14 Mar 2023 07:59:03 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17355 The Vietnam War has been written about from many points of view in fiction, but for the most part my reading has focused on the years of the war, rife as they are with the atrocities perpetuated on the Vietnamese, both by their own people (ARVN soldiers in the South, Viet Cong in the North) […]

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