America started because people left their country to seek a better life. While Vietnam might not be a Westerner’s vision of prosperity and success, it was the land of dreams for Percival, the headmaster in Vincent Lam’s The Headmaster’s Wager (Hogarth). Percival’s father left China for Vietnam to earn money for his family and Percival followed suit.
From Left to Write book club members have read the book together and today we discuss expats, money, sacrifice and more:
- Rebecca at Life Of An Army Wife finds friends in waiting rooms
- Alicia S of Titere con Bonete details her parents’ eating habits
- Ariane from The Force Expansive needs a little fiction in her non-fiction
- Sandboxmoxie at Another Expat in Dubai tells her parents’ Vietnam War story
- Eva Greene-Wilson of SocaMom.com offers good advice from her dad
- Melanie from tales from the crib isn’t giving up her naptime
- Michelle at Honest & Truly! wishes her kids were expats
- Janaki Kuruppu of More Than Four Sides ponders the father-son relationship
- Emily from Keeping Time pens a letter to a friend
- Brenda Bartella Peterson at Grit and Grace interviews a Vietnamese student
- Nancy of The Real Nani is reluctant to face others’ realities
- Amy Heinz from Using Our Words finds her dad in a letter
- Emily at Mama Sick makes gambles everyday
- Robin (noteverstill) of The Not-Ever-Still Life learned how to use chopsticks
- Thien-Kim from I’m Not the Nanny is Chinese on paper
I hope you’ll visit our members’ posts and join in on the discussion.
Don’t forget to grab your copy of The Headmaster’s Wager. We’d love to hear your thoughts! You can follow author Vincent Lam by visiting his website, Facebook orTwitter.
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