"In December 1980, when Thao Lam was two years old, her parents made the decision to flee war-torn Vietnam. They piled into a small fishing boat, not knowing where they would end up, just knowing the had to leave. It was the only way they could imagine a future for their family, free of the violence that had ripped their country apart"--Dust jacket.
year: 2020
call number/section: 1000
subjects: refugees, juvenile fiction, boats and boating, ocean travel, vietnam war, 1961-1975, refugees, families, stories without words, specimens, fiction, family life, wordless picture books, picture books