Vicky Nguyen Boat Baby review, recensie en informatie memoir van de Amerikaans-Vietnamese journaliste over haar familie van bootvluchtelingen. Op 1 april 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van de Amerikaans-Vietnamese journalist en schrijfster Vicky Nguyen. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Vicky Nguyen Boat Baby review en recensie
- “How could I love and respect Vicky Nguyen even more? I read her book. Vicky’s life story reads like a thriller-and a love story-and a how-to on finding your voice. I am in awe!” (Hoda Kotb, NBC TODAY show anchor)
- “Uniquely personal and universally inspiring. Equal parts funny, inspiring, and authentic. Vicky’s memoir informs, uplifts and reminds us all that America is a place where anything can happen.” (Andrew Yang)
Boat Baby
- Auteur: Vicky Nguyen (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: memoir
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
- Verschijnt: 1 april 2025
- Omvang: 320 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de memoir van Vicky Nguyen
In a memoir where heroism meets humor, NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen tells the story of her family’s daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to reporter with laughter and fierce love.
Starting in 1975, Vietnam’s “boat people”—desperate families seeking freedom—fled the Communist government and violence in their country any way they could, usually by boat across the South China Sea. Vicky Nguyen and her family were among them. Attacked at sea by pirates before reaching a refugee camp in Malaysia, Vicky’s family survived on rations and waited months until they were sponsored to go to America.
But deciding to leave and start a new life in a new country is half the story…figuring out how to be American is the other. Boat Baby is Vicky’s memoir of growing up in America with unconventional Vietnamese parents who didn’t always know how to bridge the cultural gaps. It’s a childhood filled with misadventures and misunderstandings, from almost stabbing the neighborhood racist with a butter knife to getting caught stealing Cosmo in the hope of learning Do You Really Think You Know Everything About Sex?
Vicky’s parents approached life with the attitude, “Why not us?” In the face of prejudice, they taught her to be gritty and resilient, skills Vicky used as she combatted stereotyping throughout her career, fending off the question “Aren’t you Connie Chung?” to become a leading Asian American journalist on television. She delivers a uniquely transparent account of her life, revealing how she negotiated her salary in a competitive industry, the challenges of starting a family, and the struggle to be a dutiful daughter.
Funny, nostalgic, and poignant, Boat Baby is a testament to the messy glue that bonds a family. Vicky Nguyen offers an optimistic story full of heart that illuminates the promise of what America can be.
Vicky Nguyen is born in 1979 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She is an NBC News senior consumer investigative correspondent and anchor of NBC News Daily. She reports for the Today show, Nightly News with Lester Holt and NBC News Now. She graduated as valedictorian from the University of San Francisco. Vicky lives in New York with her husband and three daughters. Her parents are always nearby.
Lam Ngo (Vietnam) – Verdreven naar de zee
Verhalen van Vietnamese bootvluchtelingen in Nederland
Uitgever: Walburg Pers
Verschijnt: 20 maart 2025