This dark tale takes place in a contemporary America where the government is forcing Vietnamese Americans into internment camps. High schooler Duncan and first year college student Jen are both detained with their mother, but their journalist half-sibling Ursula remains on the outside and begins reporting on their situation. The author of New Waves, Kevin Ngyuen is a journalist, and he brings a sharp sense of journalistic ethics to this tale, which also reflects the U.S. government’s ongoing detention of immigrants and internment of Japanese Americans in the 1940s.
This dark tale takes place in a contemporary America where the government is forcing Vietnamese Americans into internment camps. High schooler Duncan and first year college student Jen are both detained with their mother, but their journalist half-sibling Ursula remains on the outside and begins…
