When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip

Prologue: Dedication to peace - Coming back - Fathers and daughters - Open wounds - Losing the way - Losing love - A quest of faith - A different view - Sisters and brothers - Daughters and sons - Power on earth - Almost in paradise - Finding a family - Finding peace - Letting go - Epilogue: A song of enlightenmentĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 10:02:22 Associated-names Wurts, Jay, author Boxid IA1795306 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Col_number COL-609 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Scenes of this joyous reunion are interwoven with the brutal war years, offering a poignant picture of Vietnam, then and now, and of a courageous woman who experienced the true horror of the Vietnam War-and survived to tell her unforgettable story And almost twenty years after her escape to America, she was drawn inexorably back to the devastated country and family she left behind.

Before the age of sixteen, Le Ly had suffered near-starvation, imprisonment, torture, rape, and the deaths of beloved family members-but miraculously held fast to her faith in humanity. As the government and Viet Cong troops fought in and around Ky La, both sides recruited children as spies and saboteurs. helicopters landed in Ky La, her tiny village in central Vietnam. The youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was twelve years old when U.S. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the haunting memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down. It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times.

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip