The Beauty That Remains

The Beauty That Remains charts the author's escape from communist Vietnam, her stay in a Malaysian refugee camp, and her first years in Australia, with all the drama and the hilarity of a bumbling young woman from a small town in Vietnam who tried to learn, adapt and make sense of Australian culture and society. Her boat drifted for a week in the open sea, got caught in a raging storm, survived two pirate attacks; she and her boat companions found themselves in one extraordinary situation to the