A Long Way From Saigon

These are the opening lines of the saga of a girl named Phin - a story that poignantly underscores the reality that people are not all born equal. Some people are born to pain, poverty and oppression. Such was the case with Phin, a dark-skinned Cambodian/ Vietnamese girl who started life at a deficit, feeling like a stranger in her own emotionally torn family, in her own war torn country. And yet, on her shoulders rested the burden of her family’s well being from a very early age.

This is the story of an indomitable spirit of a girl who, in spite of the difficulties and the unfair burdens placed upon her... more