Out of the Dragons Mouth, Joyce Burns Zeiss
Out of the Dragons Mouth, Joyce Burns Zeiss
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Out of the Dragons Mouth

Author: Joyce Burns Zeiss

Narrator: Mirai

Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/07/2022


Synopsis

After the fall of South Vietnam, fourteen-year-old Mai, a young Vietnamese girl of Chinese descent, is torn from a life of privilege and forced to flee across the South China Sea in the hold of a fishing trawler. Mai finds tenuous safety in a refugee camp on an island off the coast of Malaysia, where a greedy relative called Small Auntie offers her a place to stay—but her hospitality isn’t free. With her father’s words “You must survive” echoing in her ears, Mai endures the hardships of the camp, which are tempered only by her dreams of being sponsored by her uncle for entry into America. But when an accident forces Mai to leave the safety of Small Auntie’s family, she meets Kien, a half-American boy who might be the only person who can keep her alive until she’s sent to the United States. Coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Out of the Dragon’s Mouth is a poignant look into life ripped apart by the ravages of war.

Reviews

The story follows a young girl as she flees her country, together with her uncle and attempts to find refuge elsewhere. No punches are pulled in her incredible journey and reading this is sure to give readers an insight into what it is like to leave behind everything you know as well as the kindness......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca

Out of the Dragon's Mouth is a moving, important story. In all my years of reading young adult titles, I don't think I've read anything quite like it. I keep wanting to compare it to Island of the Blue Dolphins because it's about a girl who must fend for herself—on an island—without the support of h......more

Books like this are the ones I live for. It's written to make people think about worlds that are not their own. Too often, I personally get trapped in this bubble, forgetting that bad things are happening around me and that there are people suffering and I'm not doing anything; it's not a novel that......more