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The Dust of Life is a collection of vivid and devastating oral histories of Vietnamese Amerasians. Abandoned during the war by their American fathers, discriminated against by the victorious Communists, and ignored for many years by the American government, they endured life in impoverished Vietnam. Their stories are sad, sometimes tragic, but they are also testimonials to the strength of human resiliency.While unique in many respects, the Vie...

Robert S. McKelvey is professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland and is the author of The Dust of Life: America's Children Abandoned in Vietnam.

Robert S. McKelvey is professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland and is the author of The Dust of Life: America's Children Abandoned in Vietnam.

In this first book to focus on the grieving process of doctors and nurses for their child patients, physician Robert McKelvey interviews members of a pediatric hospital staff, specifically those working in intensive care and hematology-oncology units where children often die and where caretakers have a great deal of experience with terminal illness. "This book by Dr. McKelvey is as important and valuable as any I've ever read. It is such a ple...

The Dust of Life is a collection of vivid and devastating oral histories of Vietnamese Amerasians. Abandoned during the war by their American fathers, discriminated against by the victorious Communists, and ignored for many years by the American government, they endured life in impoverished Vietnam. Their stories are sad, sometimes tragic, but they are also testimonials to human resiliency.Robert McKelvey is a former marine who served in Vietn...