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Fish Sauce is dedicated to Cheri Johnson, Anhthao Bui’s best friend, who is scrutinizing and zealous about Vietnamese culture, tradition, and people.
Fish Sauce is realistic fiction, and Anhthao’s second anthology collection. With her memory, she invites readers to travel with her to Vietnam and go back to the time before and after the pivotal year of 1975. Anhthao also displays her continuing journey in the United States, from the perspective of a newcomer, throughout nearly 100 short pieces of writing.
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Is 911 an emergency phone number?
Is 911 a symbol for terrorist attacks?
911 is 9+1+1= 11, which marks 11 years of living in the United States of America for Anhthao Bui, a Vietnamese American woman. Anhthao is the author of Yellow Flower, a poetry collection marking her 11- year, long-distance marathon toward production of her own literature. With almost 60 poems, Yellow Flower reveals Anhthao's secret life of inner struggles and conflicts—love, patriotism, anger, regret, and self-doubt. Although pain and sorrow are the major themes, some positive poems are full of hope and appreciation toward the United States and its people.
Yellow Flower is the book for those who are seeking to read emotional poetry.
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Customers’ review
Bridging Cultures
Roland Cheek, A reviewer, 04/24/2008
YELLOW FLOWER is an honest, evocative, sincere effort at bridging cultural gaps by a Vietnamese immigrant to America. It can be recommended not alone as a memoir of the author's own struggle to cross that chasm, but as an educational tool for a reader to comprehend our own ancestors' struggles to merge into new and different societies.
Let This Yellow Flower Grow
A reviewer, A reviewer, 04/19/2008
I thoroughly enjoyed Anhthao Bui's Yellow Flower. Her poems convey a rich array of imagery that blends the experience of someone raised in one culture, and now surviving in another. It is interesting how Anhthao is able to create a visual picture from the thought and speech patterns of the Vietnamese culture, and yet have it translate so well to the 'Western Mind.' I applaud Miss Bui for her passion and keen observations.
YELLOW FLOWER'S FOREWORD
Anhthao Bui cautiously entered my classroom of Steinbeck students, English 167. She had launched into an English major at San Jose State, a typically determined move by this Vietnamese immigrant, a woman with a mission. “I fell down the first time I was assigned to the English War/Considering I was an ordinary hero without armor,” she writes in a poem about her confrontations with language. Indeed, for anyone who knows Anhthao, her struggles to master and teach the English language have had the classical dignity of this poem that describes her assault. But Anh |
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