Major Book Launch!
“The most intense love
grows out of utter
devastation”
War Hero is a book like none you’ve ever read. Trauma. Family. Crises. Secrets. Confessions. Romance.
Dolphin Girl, a resilient war child, a fishing boat escapee captured by Pirates at age five, shares her early years in poetic stories of new family in a new world. Mi Chau’s Vietnam vet not-father faces his own life and death struggles. And there are mysteries no child can be told . . . yet she must learn to survive.
Mi Chau's trauma lurks and lures her to water. Water in which she saw other children and neighbors drowned by Pirates. Under water where she swims searching for them and for her ghost brother. Fluid craters of memory and nightmare.
In the first twenty-three words Bon reveals the first secret and denial. In the first hundred words, a Pirate stranger picks up Mi and her Ma where they have miraculously reached America and takes them to a hellhole room for two months. And then on the next page . . .
"The Mudhole, a shallow, spring-fed swimming pond . . . I swam underwater as if the Pirates were shooting at me from their nearby boat and I had to get to safety, far away from them. . . farther and farther without a breath.
"I was searching for my ghost brother in the dark waters of my nightmare . . . My lungs were full of water at the bottom of a lake. . . he ran the mile to The Mudhole with flashlight in hand." from the War Book
Book Publishing
Publishing Mi Chau's book, Why a War Hero Would Leave the Fish Pan in the Sink, is our introduction to the world.
"The leaky fishing boat we escaped Vietnam in had run out of fuel, food, and water." — War Hero book
Community Poetry
See Readers' Poems and Microstories tab for other readers' own experiences with the themes of the War Hero book. See how to submit your own to our editors for possible inclusion..
"Once a boat meant safety, life.
Somewhere that empty boat still drifts." — War Hero book
