Journalist Nguyen Qui Duc.
Journalist Nguyen Qui Duc. He works for KALW-FM in San Francisco, supplies commentaries to NPR and received the Overseas Press Club's 1989 Award of Excellence for his public radio series about returning to Viet Nam. Nguyen has written a new memoir about his family's struggle during and after the war. NGUYEN's father was an official in the South Vietnamese government who was captured by the Viet Cong and imprisoned for 12 years. In 1975, Nguyen gained passage to the U.S. on a cargo ship, and moved about from relative to relative until he settled in California. His mother stayed behind in Vietnam, lost her job as a school principal and hawked beef noodle soup on the streets of Saigon. Eventually Nguyen was reunited with his family in the U.S. His new memoir is "Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family." (Addison-Wesley). (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane)
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