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Too young to have direct memory of the Viet Nam War, Edith Shillue went to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in 1993 from her native Massachusetts to work as a university lecturer in English and American history. This book is a lively rendering of her experiences there and in Nam Ha Province in northern Viet Nam, where she later taught in village schools. Her memoir provides sharp observation and thoughtful commentary on today's Vietnam.

Born in suburban Boston, where being Irish is a badge of social status, Edith Shillue traveled to Ireland's northeast corner in the wake of the Good Friday Agreement -- the historic 1998 peace treaty that promised to end war as a way of life in Northern Ireland. Spending time in both the middle-class environs of South Belfast and the rougher areas of Derry's housing estates, she recorded the prevailing moods of this long-troubled land as she l...