29 Aug / Dust of Life by Cameron Michaels [in AsianWeek]
The book, apparently “based 80-90 percent on real stories,” is admittedly over-the-top in a Miss Saigon sort of way. But the Donna/Mai story is everything Hollywood is searching for – so no surprise that it’s supposedly been optioned to be made into a major motion picture. Donna is the lovely American girl mourning the loss of her father; Mai is Donna’s former self, a tortured little girl desperately trying to survive the brutality of the Vietnam War as an unwanted, GI-fathered, hapa cast-off.
Review: “New and Notable Books,” AsianWeek, August 29, 2003
Readers: Adult
Published: 2003