Three Funerals for My Father

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Publication Year:
2021

ISBN-13: 9781990160059

<p><b>Shortlisted for the 2022 Hamilton Literary Awards</b></p><p><i>What would you risk to save your children?</i></p><p>Jolie Phuong Hoang grew up as one of ten children, part of a loving, prosperous Vietnamese family. All that changed after the communists took over in 1975. Identified as a potential &#8220;bad element,&#8221; the family lived in constant fear of being sent to the dreaded new economic zone.</p><p>Desperate to ensure the family&#8217;s safety and to provide a future for his children, Jolie&#8217;s father arranged three separate escapes. The first was a failure that cost most of their fortune, but the second was successful&#8212;six of his children reached Indonesia and ultimately settled in Canada. He and his youngest daughter drowned during the disastrous third attempt. Told from the author&#8217;s perspective and that of her father&#8217;s ghost, <em>Three Funerals for My Father</em> is a poignant story of love, grief and resilience that spans three countries and fifty years.</p><p>In an era when anti-Asian racism is on the rise and the issue of human migration is front-page news, <i>Three Funerals for My Father</i> provides a vivid and timely first-hand account of what it is like to risk everything for a chance at freedom. It is at once an intimate story of one family, a testament to the collective experience of the &#8220;boat people&#8221; who escaped communist Vietnam, and a plea on behalf of the millions of refugees currently seeking asylum across the globe.</p>&#10;