{"product_id":"the-saigon-sisters-privileged-women-in-the-resistance-hardback-9781501749735","title":"The Saigon Sisters; Privileged Women in the Resistance (Hardback) 9781501749735","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Saigon Sisters\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePrivileged Women in the Resistance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatricia D. Norland (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501749735\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 July 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages, 15 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 15 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recording the histories and putting them to print, Patricia Norland succeeded in capturing an important slice of history and the very personal story of exemplary women.\u003c\/p\u003e (Foreign Service Journal) \u003cp\u003eTo put it mildly, these stories are gripping.\u003c\/p\u003e (Green Left) \u003cp\u003eThis is a well-written, incredibly valuable book. Highly recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice) \u003cp\u003e[Norland] gives [these women] a platform to talk directly to the reader[,] thereby revealing the women's double and even multiple lives, full of contradiction and inner conflicts caused by the complexity and long duration of the war years. \u003ci\u003eThe Saigon Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e is a substantial collection of thoughts, memories, moments of pain and joy in individual lives.\u003c\/p\u003e (Asian Review of Books) \u003cp\u003eThe literature on the war in Vietnam includes hundreds of first-person sources by men on all sides in the conflict, but fewer than a dozen books about women are in print. Thus this collection of oral history interviews by Norland (formerly, US Department of State) is an important contribution.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice) \u003cp\u003eIt is quite easy, and motivating as well, to imagine a course on Vietnamese history after World War II that includes only work by women and with \u003ci\u003eThe Saigon Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e as a pivotal work connecting them all. As Norland's powerful oral-history recounting of the lives of this 'band of sisters' demonstrates, friendship and independence required vigilance but endured despite decades of war.\u003c\/p\u003e (Pacific Affairs) \u003cp\u003eTo read a good group biography is to come out with a different level of appreciation for the ways, trivial and tremendous, that humans influence one another... Norland tells the stories of nine [Vietnamese women] who chose to stay, and who, after spending their childhoods secretly dreaming of Vietnamese independence, found surprising ways into the resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e (The Atlantic)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Saigon Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e offers the narratives of a group of privileged women who were immersed in a French lycée and later rebelled and fought for independence, starting with France's occupation of Vietnam and continuing through US involvement and life after war ends in 1975.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTracing the lives of nine women, \u003ci\u003eThe Saigon Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e reveals these women's stories as they forsook safety and comfort to struggle for independence, and describes how they adapted to life in the jungle, whether facing bombing raids, malaria, deadly snakes, or other trials. How did they juggle double lives working for the resistance in Saigon? How could they endure having to rely on family members to raise their own children? Why, after being sent to study abroad by anxious parents, did several women choose to return to serve their country? How could they bear open-ended separation from their husbands? How did they cope with sending their children to villages to escape the bombings of Hanoi? In spite of the maelstrom of war, how did they forge careers? And how, in spite of dislocation and distrust following the end of the war in 1975, did these women find each other and rekindle their friendships? Patricia D. Norland answers these questions and more in this powerful and personal approach to history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Thanh: \"Our Hearts Beating for the Cause\"\u003cbr\u003e 2. Trang: \"Living a Contradiction\"\u003cbr\u003e 3. Minh: \"Generation at a Crossroads\"\u003cbr\u003e 4. Le An: \"The University of Life\"\u003cbr\u003e 5. Sen: \"A Question of Habit\"\u003cbr\u003e 6. Tuyen: \"A Chance to Succeed\"\u003cbr\u003e 7. Lien An: \"Deep Down, We Remain Vietnamese\"\u003cbr\u003e 8. Xuan: \"Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality Were Not for Our People\"\u003cbr\u003e 9. Oahn: \"I Did Not Become a Refugee\"\u003cbr\u003e 10. Tranh: \"We Are, After All, Human Beings\"\u003cbr\u003e 11. Trang: \"Prepared for Any Sacrifice or Risk\"\u003cbr\u003e 12. Minh: \"I Led Two Lives\"\u003cbr\u003e 13. Le An: \"The Theme of Our Work... Was Revolution\"\u003cbr\u003e 14. Sen: \"Working for the People, Not a Particular Party\"\u003cbr\u003e 15. Tuyen: \"Everyone Was Wrong\"\u003cbr\u003e 16. Lien An: \"We Understood What We Had to Do\"\u003cbr\u003e 17. Xuan: \"We Could Not Stay Indifferent\"\u003cbr\u003e 18. Oanh: \"French Are Very Nice in France and Very Colonialist in the Colonies\"\u003cbr\u003e 19. 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