Rain On The Red Flag Excerpt
I am thrilled to share an excerpt from my memoir, Rain on the Red Flag — to be published by Page Publishing in Fall 2022. I hope you will like it. Tchaikovsky. A White Butterfly. The Memory of Love. For seventeen-year-old Thanh (Frank) Nguyen, the official end of the war in Vietnam marked the end of his freedom and the beginning of a harrowing adventure. Rain on the Red Flag details Thanh’s journey which begins on the day the communists plant their flag in homes along his street in Saigon. Thanh’s only chance of survival is to escape. Later, Thanh is tricked by an opiate dealer and captured by police. For four years, he is held in jails and labor camps; chained, starved and forced to do backbreaking work. Only his love for freedom, music, the memory of his girl and friendship with the other prisoners keeps him sane. When Thanh is finally set free from a labor camp he returns to Saigon, a city which he then feels estranged from. He helps to build a boat which he unexpectedly captains t