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''WE SHOULD NEVER MEET'' The set of interlinked stories that make up ''We Should Never Meet'' alternate between Saigon before the city's fall in 1975 and present-day “ Little Saigon ” in Southern California — and explore the reverberations of the Vietnam War . Intersecting the lives of eight characters across three decades and two continents, these stories each surround the events of Operation Babylift , the emergency evacuation of 2,000 Vietnamese and Amerasian orphans from Vietnam under the executive order of President Gerald Ford just weeks before the fall of Saigon. These children faced an uncertain, dangerous existence if left behind in Vietnam. Four of the stories follow the saga of one orphan's journey from the points of view of his teenage mother, a duck farmer from the Mekong Delta, a social worker in Saigon, and a volunteer doctor from America. The other four take place 20 years later and chronicle the lives of four Vietnamese orphans now living in America: Kim, an embittered Amerasian girl searching for her unknown mother; Vinh, her gang member ex-boyfriend who preys on Vietnamese families to rob; Mai, an ambitious orphan who faces her emancipation from the American foster care system; and Huan, an Amerasian adopted by a white family, who returns to Vietnam with his adoptive mother. 2 BOOKS (NOVELS)
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