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DANA SACHS - With THE LIFE WE WERE GIVEN

04/07/2010 7:30 pm

Dana Sachs brings us THE LIFE WE WERE GIVEN: OPERATION BABYLIFT, INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION, AND THE CHILDREN OF THE WAR IN VIETNAM.  With sensitivity and balance, Sachs presents multiple perspectives on the human cost of war, international adoption and aid efforts, and U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

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The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam (Hardcover)

By Dana Sachs
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780807042410
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Published: Beacon Press, 4/2010
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In April 1975, the U.S. government evacuated nearly three thousand displaced Vietnamese children just before the fall of Saigon. Chaotic from start to finish, Operation Babylift gripped the American public and was often presented as a great humanitarian effort. Now, thirty-five years after the war ended, Dana Sachs examines the rescue more carefully, revealing how a single public-policy gesture irrevocably altered thousands of lives, not always for the better.

With sensitivity and balance, Sachs presents multiple perspectives: foreign adoption volunteers trying to "save" children; birth mothers making the wrenching decision to relinquish them; adoptive families waiting anxiously to adopt them; and the children themselves, struggling to understand.

If You Lived Here (Paperback)

By Dana Sachs
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780061130496
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Published: Harper Paperbacks, 3/2008
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Forty-two-year-old Shelley Marino's desperate yearning for a child has led her to one of the only doors still open to her: foreign adoption. It is a decision that strains and ultimately shatters her relationship with her husband, Martin—the veteran of an Asian war who cannot reconcile what Shelley wants with what he knows about the world. But it unites her with Mai, who emigrated from Vietnam decades ago and has now acquired the accoutrements of the American dream in an effort to dull the memory of the tragedy that drove her from her homeland. As a powerful friendship is forged, two women embark on a life-altering journey to the world Mai left behind—to confront the stark realities of a painful past and embrace the promise of the future.

The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam (Paperback)

By Dana Sachs

ISBN-13: 9781580051002
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Seal Press, 9/2003
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This perceptive and intensely personal account explores adapting to life in acountry so long off-limits to Americans.
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