Dust Child rest is resistance cutting them off from all

cutting them off from all outside help

beliefs and environment affect an individual’s response to—and acknowledgement of—violence against women

with the threat of homelessness

contradictions

Spotting a face in a crowd is so easy

Dust Child rest is resistance cutting them off from allFinalist for the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The author of the award winning The Mountains Sing returns with a suspenseful and moving saga of wartime love, family, loss, and redemption set in Vit Nam. In 1969, sisters Trang and Qunh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village to work in a bar in Si Gn. Once in the big city, the young girls learn how to drink and flirt (and more) with American GIs in return for