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The broken country : on trauma, a crime, and the continuing legacy of Vietnam /

The Broken Country uses a violent incident that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2012 as a springboard for examining the long-term cultural and psychological effects of the Vietnam War. To make sense of the shocking and baffling incident, in which a young homeless man born in Vietnam stabbed a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rekdal, Paisley (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Series:	Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction.
Subjects:	Vietnamese Americans > History > 20th century. Immigrants > United States > Social conditions > 20th century. Ly, Kiet Thanh, > 1975- Mentally ill homeless persons > United States. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Veterans > United States. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Vietnamese. War > Psychological aspects. War and society > United States. War and society > Vietnam. Immigrants > Crimes against > Vietnam. Crime. Emigration and immigration > Political aspects. Violence.

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