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The Sacred Willow, Mai Elliott, Oxford University Press, 1999, 2017 “Looking back over this narrative,” Mai Elliott writes, “one of the themes I see in it is the irony and unpredictability of history.” In this new print edition, Elliot traces four generations of her Vietnamese family against backdrop of the nation’s ever-changing political environment. Elliott, …
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