When Heaven Fell
 

When Heaven Fell

by Carolyn Marsden

When a Vietnamese girl receives a visit from her half-American aunt, brimming curiosity — and cultural misperceptions — come to the fore.

Every day nine-year-old Binh sells fruit and sodas to the girls whose families can afford to send them to school, and every night she returns to her one-room home to share a simple meal with her family. Everything changes, however, when her... (read more)

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There's a sad sweetness about Binh and her family's hopes that her Ameriasian aunt visiting from America will be as rich and generous and beautiful as they imagine. You can feel the embarassing regret as the cultural divide widens between Di Thao and the family. Binh finds a way to make everything all right.

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