The Return to Viet Nam eBook Jade Hidle
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“Equal parts conjuring, critique, and memorial, the passages in The Return to Viet Nam portray the entrenched hauntings of not only war but also cultural, national, and racial purity, as Hidle inverts shame with an elegiac rawness that holds a truthful mirror to the cultural value of racial purity within Vietnamese societies at home and abroad. By poetically portraying her own multiple transgressions of not belonging both 'here' and 'there,' Hidle's book reveals lifelong commingling of guilt and pride, deprivation and abundance, sacredness and profanity, loyalty and disobedience, rejection and rootedness.”
—Julie Thi Underhill, multidisciplinary scholar-artist-activist, author of "Ghosts," "Corner Shore," and "The Gift Horse of War"
The Return to Viet Nam eBook Jade Hidle
Wow! I myself am a 25 Caucasian college student in San Diego California. I have taken a Literature class with Professer Hidle and was so excited to find she had written a book. I just received it yesterday and I am writing this review as I have just finished.During my read I felt as if I was on the trip with her. The details and emotions she placed on characters was effortless and impacting. I felt I was on the beach with her, living with her mother and experiencing culture gaps.
For her to take myself who I speak only English and do not have a strong cultured family, to feeling like I'm there among her setting was really... Fun. It was like a trip she took me along for! I can relate to a lot of the different cultural views being as my boyfriend is Lao and Thai, but to read it from a young girl to a young woman's perspective was really relatable.
I learned so much. It was a short, sweet and fresh book. A quick read for myself being an avid reader. I marked some pages to re-read. Especially about the boat trip and the girl with the flag around her arm. I don't want to spoil the novel, but it's like an invitation into a culture.
I hope there is a part 2! The imagery she created was just... Great and hilarious! I'd love to see her mother spill pho and her jumping at the statue! :)
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The Return to Viet Nam eBook Jade Hidle Reviews
Excellent read! Captivating!
Oh how vivid her memoir is!! Here and there throughout the book I have seen myself. I felt like she was there talking to me face-to-face. Additionally, her humorous style and carefully selected stories really captivated me. I felt like she was there talking to me face-to-face. With naturally funny descriptions on the surface and deep insight into the problems that partially shape the lives of ethnic people, the memoir is truly praiseworthy. Bravo!
Great first effort from a writer I have known for a while. To me the subject matter and telling are distinct and compelling. I really enjoyed the chapter about ghosts--lovely imagery and so honest. There's enough in this book to make a reader laugh and then spit surprise right after. I'm going to read Andrew Pham and Viet Nguyen now all thanks to Jade. Very inspirational book here.
I read this book in one sitting. Beautifully written story of the complex relationship a person can have with their past. I've always heard great things about Vietnam and been interested in visiting. Hidle's book gave me unique insight into the country and the history of one of its families; weaving together the past and present day. This is definitely a book I will read again and again. I hope to read more by Jade Hidle.
Great book, easy read, the author has a talent for bringing you in to the scene, making some parts wonderfully visceral.
An exploration in to what it's like being torn between identities, or rather, trying to find an identity; it's up to the reader to interpret it as they will. The writing feels very personal in that it details events in the author's life that have impacted her and her reactions and feelings to them. I laughed, smiled, felt embarrassed, angry, and at times even felt intrusive because of what I learned about people I've never met before. I inhaled the book in one sitting because it's that enjoyable. I was bummed when it was finished because I wanted more. I eagerly await her next book.
Jade Hidle’s The Return to Vietnam is a whimsical journey that takes the reader through the ups and downs of Jade’s life as a mixed race girl growing up in the projects of Southern California. Her mixed identity (Vietnamese mother, Irish-Norwegian father) presents multidimensional dilemmas, and her story is told as a raw narrative of the battles she faces in mind, body, and spirit. The struggles are often with herself and with people close to her heart but who are distant in their relations. They are there in her story – delicate descriptions of who they are and what they’ve said to her - but they are often not present in her vignettes. Her relationship and dialogue with her mother are point and center in many of these “tug at your heart” episodes. It leaves the reader disheartened in those poignant Latchkey kid moments, and you want to root her for her when she acts out and wants to be a bad daughter. But as the story unfolds, I find that she is never bad. And that’s what’s acutely distressing – her absorption of pain alone, in silence. Schoolgirls bully her, father figures come and go, and the people she encounters in Vietnam don’t know what to make of her. But there is redemption. The reconciliation of her qualms comes in the form of her trek through Vietnam, the place she describes as home, even though she had never been there before. As she discovers herself through the sites and sounds of her mother’s birthplace, she shows us how home is not bound by a borderland. Home is the place where you find your solace, your peace of mind. There are many stories of Vietnamese American identity and returning to Vietnam, but Jade’s story is told with a grit and humor that rubs you the right way. The way she weaves fact and fiction is so seamless that you’ll want to believe every moment - especially the happy ones, particularly the funny ones, but even the melancholy ones.
Wow! I myself am a 25 Caucasian college student in San Diego California. I have taken a Literature class with Professer Hidle and was so excited to find she had written a book. I just received it yesterday and I am writing this review as I have just finished.
During my read I felt as if I was on the trip with her. The details and emotions she placed on characters was effortless and impacting. I felt I was on the beach with her, living with her mother and experiencing culture gaps.
For her to take myself who I speak only English and do not have a strong cultured family, to feeling like I'm there among her setting was really... Fun. It was like a trip she took me along for! I can relate to a lot of the different cultural views being as my boyfriend is Lao and Thai, but to read it from a young girl to a young woman's perspective was really relatable.
I learned so much. It was a short, sweet and fresh book. A quick read for myself being an avid reader. I marked some pages to re-read. Especially about the boat trip and the girl with the flag around her arm. I don't want to spoil the novel, but it's like an invitation into a culture.
I hope there is a part 2! The imagery she created was just... Great and hilarious! I'd love to see her mother spill pho and her jumping at the statue! )
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