resilience: Keeping Our Name

Resilience: Keeping Our Name is a powerful debut memoir by Thuy-Anh Nguyen, a second-generation Vietnamese-Canadian.

Told in an intimate interview-style format, the book weaves together personal reflections and direct conversations with the author's parents-Vietnamese refugees who escaped post-war Vietnam and began a new life in Canada. Their story includes tragedy, courage, and survival: the loss of a child, encounters with pirates, life in refugee camps, and the struggle to rebuild from no...