Warm Rain

If you could trade your comfort zone for an exotic realm you knew only in books and your imagination, how would you do it? Undertaking just such a quest, the author, a product of post-WWII American suburbia, gradually enters a world that had captured his imagination and for years fueled his dreams — that of the Vietnamese people.

In the mid-1990s, renting a room in a Vietnamese-run boarding house in Arlington, Virginia’s Little Saigon, home base of the region’s immigrant Viet community, the author takes the reader with him as he enters a milieu populated by characters as unpredictable as any Hollywood script could street-savvy landlady, loving refugee family, homeless psychiatrist, former guerrilla, teenage runaway, and many more.

Eager to experience the homeland of such dynamic, lively people, he manages a shoestring trip to Vietnam in 1999—and encounters much more than he bargained for. Share his wild, often comical and poignant adventures as he seeks the heart of Vietnam.

Author: Dan Hambleton 

Publisher: The Gioi

Released Date: 2020

ISBN: 9786047783540