Goodbye, Vietnam
“There was only one meal a day, and that was a small one. I tried not to think of my empty stomach. When night came I was too hungry to sleep. Without food and with only a few sips of water, Dao did not have enough milk to give her baby, and the baby cried and hiccuped most of the night.The first thing everyone looked for on waking in the morning was a thin dark line on the horizon that would mean land. But the horizon was as empty as our rice bowls. One morning Loi went about the boat collectin...g bits and pieces of string. Kim and I watched him knot a fish net. His fingers moved quickly, forming loops. When he finished a set of loops, he ran string through each one of them. When he pulled all the strings tight—there was a square of mesh.At last the net was ready to be lowered into the water. I kept thinking of the big catfish we sometimes caught in the stream that ran through our village, but Loi said there were no catfish in the sea. Each time he drew up the net I was sure there would be something in it, but each time it was empty.MoreLess
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