A Year in Saigon: How I Gave Up My Glitzy Job in Television to Have the Time of My Life Teaching Amerasian Kids in Vietnam

by Katie Kelly and Katie Kelly

Book Overview

The former television movie and theater critic recounts her year teaching English to Amerasian children in Saigon, describing the plight of these children who were abandoned by G.I. fathers and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671750909
• ISBN13: 9780671750909
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

A story rich in detail

I found this book to be very interesting. Kelly includes a rich description of Vietnam and her people.

A Decent Human Being

Katie Kelly went back to Vietnam to work with the half American street kids of Saigon. She was a friend to them and tried to teach them English. In her book she chronicles their life histories and what it meant to live in a society where taunting by their fellow students drove most of them out of school after five years or less. Her year in Saigon and her subsequent efforts on behalf of those lost Americans reveals what a decent human being she is. Would that we would have more like her.