This is a true story of a poor Vietnamese girl whose parents treated her as the wicked stepmother treated Cinderella, just because she was not as beautiful as her sisters. When she grew up, her parents hated her because she was poor. The story describes her struggles to survive. Its background covers her country’s history from the War of Independent from French to WWll with the Japanese occupation
towards the Civil War. It is filled with dramatic events, with romances, with tragedies and with adult themes. It is about family relationships and Christianity. Readers will feel the very human sufferings of the protagonist who against all the odds that her family had caused her. Reader will go with her journey by boat. The journey she had had in her dream before she left Viet Nam by boat and the details of her journey were the same with what she had seen in her dream which she believed that is God’s plan for her. How she as a poor woman got money to pay for the smugglers and what happened during the boat trip that she determined to convert from a Buddha rooted belief to Christian? This is a moving, compelling, thrilling story of love, of betrayal, of forgiveness, of courage, of endurance and of adventure. You will enjoy each chapter of the story for it is full of mysteries and it is so interesting that you want to read it through in one go.
