Russell Ching Yeung

Reviewed for Netgalley. Lam and Dee dee embark on a harrowing journey to the USA to try to escape Vietnam and meet up with their father who has work in that country.
On the trip they are separated from their older brother and so are cared for by a kind man they call Uncle and his family who have two children of similar age. The trip is fraught with danger; unscrupulous people who trick them, pirates, storms, disease, famine and lack of drinking water as well as corrupt officials in so called friendly countries who put the refugees back onto dodgy boats and then leave them stranded in international waters.… (altro)