The House On Dream Street
“It is a story about Vietnam much later, and about one American woman’s life in that country. It’s the story of a love affair with a place, a love affair that I never would have predicted.I was born in 1962, and when I was a kid, the words “Vietnam” and “war” were interchangeable. People asked questions like, “When will Vietnam be over?” and, for me at least, such a question didn’t sound strange at all. I’d never heard of “Vietnam” except as war, and the place itself conjured nothing in my mind ...but dust and blood and wailing faces.Of course the war did end, finally, after more than twenty years, and the deaths of fifty-eight thousand Americans and nearly two million Vietnamese. After North Vietnamese tanks crashed through the gates of Saigon’s Presidential Palace on April 30, 1975, Vietnam became one nation, then it shut itself off from the Western world.Nothing that had happened during the war in Vietnam had caused my family to suffer. My father had been too old for the draft.MoreLess
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