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When eight-year-old Tuấn escaped Vietnam on a boat with his family, his parents told him he was just taking a different route to visit his grandfather in the Mekong delta. Twenty-one years after the departure, he returns to a country much altered. Remembering Water is a memoir of that departure as well as his family's subsequent returns. The book alternates between Tuấn's childhood memories, his year spent in the refugee camps, and reflections on his current life in Saigon.

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"""Remembering Water is a gem of a memoir: poetic, honest, insightful, humorous, and captivating. Like water flowing back to its source, Tuan Phan's voice is powerful yet gentle, sweeping yet intimate. This book is a must-have for anyone who has ever experienced loss and trauma as it offers the pathway toward healing and peace.""-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, internationally best-selling author of The Mountains Sing and Dust Child."

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Tuan Phan is a Vietnamese American teaching English Literature in Saigon. He left Vietnam in 1986 by boat with his family as part of a wave of refugees. In America, he spent his childhood learning English and forgetting his mother tongue. He is now back in his birth country, relearning his first language, teaching literature, and writing.

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