The Happy List: A Memoir

The Happy List is the true story of how Thu Nguyen, a ten-year-old Vietnamese girl and her family escaped Vietnam after the fall of Saigon. It is a story that Thu wanted written so that her daughters would understand what her experiences had been to leave a communist country to seek freedom. After Thu's father, a South Vietnamese officer, refused to leave his family and his newborn baby, he was imprisoned by the North Vietnamese. His wife, a beautiful Vietnamese mother, evaded the North Vie...