Member Review

This book is full of emotions for those who had to leave their native places and have to settle somewhere else far away. It is a story of a young little girl Simon and her life-changing journey, when she woke up by her mother due to the evacuation that proceeded from the wildlife fire. They have bene taken to the shelter home where simone mixed up with other children and they altogether draw the situation they are in. Her mother told her about her own past lufe when she had to leave Vietnam forcefully as the place she resided in was fully flooded.

This is the real life story of an author, of this picture book. It was shown as an unforgettable story of a Vietnamese American girl whose life was transformed by a wildfire. But in reality she is he, means it is the story of a boy in whose life most influencial person is his mother. And, they didn't left Vietnam for flood effects but by the "Fall of Saigon", a war prone situation during Vietnam war. I read his 'A Man of Two Faces' and that tells a lot about this. However, the most crumblesome thing was that never took hold of me was why all such people shifted to US, when the whole reason behind that years long war was US itself.

Illustrations were very amazing and expressive by Minnie Phan. This was an abstract of the real world inside of an author. This is a personal-development book as well as self-help.