"The Dust of Life" is a collection of vivid and devastating oral
histories of Vietnamese Amerasians. Abandoned during the war by
their American fathers, discriminated against by the victorious
Communists, and ignored for many years by the American government,
they endured life in impoverished Vietnam. Their stories are sad,
sometimes tragic, but they are also testimonials to the strength of
human resiliency.
Robert S. McKelvey is a former marine who served in Vietnam in
the late 1960s. Now a child psychiatrist, he returned to Vietnam in
1990 to begin the long series of interviews that resulted in this
book. While allowing his subjects to speak for themselves, McKelvey
has organized their narratives around themes common to their lives:
early maternal loss, the experience of prejudice and
discrimination, coping with adversity, dealing with shattered hopes
for the future, and, for some, adapting to the alien environment of
the United States.
While unique in many respects, the Vietnamese Amerasian story
also illustrates themes that are tragically universal: neglect of
the human by-products of war, the destructiveness of prejudice and
racism, the pain of abandonment, and the horrors of life amidst
extreme poverty, hostility, and neglect.
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