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The Ignorance of Bliss Lib/E: An American Kid in Saigon

The Ignorance of Bliss Lib/E: An American Kid in Saigon


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The Ignorance of Bliss tells the true story of ten-year-old Sandy, who moves with her American military family to Saigon, Vietnam, where her father, the Colonel, serves as a military advisor to the South Vietnamese Army. In 1960s Saigon, Sandy finds a world of crushing poverty and extraordinary beauty; a world of streets, villas, and brothels, where politics and intrigue reside between plot and counterplot. Blissfully living a life of French decadence, Sandy maneuvers between coups, spies, bombings, corruption, and scandal as she and her thirteen-year-old brother, Tom, run an illicit baby powder and Hershey bar business on the black market and live a life of school, scouts, dance parties, and movies at the underground theater. When the Colonel's counterpart, Colonel Le Van Sam, delivers an expose on the current ruling Diem regime, Sandy finds that her constant spying on her father's activities has brought her face to face with the reality of Vietnam and the anti-American sentiment that pervades it. This coming-of age story takes place in a turbulent country striving for nationalism, giving the listener a stunning look into the life of military dependents living abroad and the underlying ignorance that surrounded a little understood time in history.

About the Author :
Sarah Mollo-Christensen is a voice talent and an audiobook narrator. A stage and voice actor, she received her BA from Dartmouth College and graduated from the Atlantic Theater Company's Acting Conservatory in New York City. As an actress, she has appeared on prestigious regional stages, including the Folger Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC. A resident of New York City and Lambertville, New Jersey, Sandy Hanna grew up in Saigon, South Vietnam, and has been telling her story about that experience all of her life. She is an artist and a writer. She holds an MEd from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with a comprehensive in the Biology of Cognition, and her undergraduate degree is from Knox College in Interdisciplinary programs in Science and Literature. She also spent a year studying design at the California Institute of the Arts with post graduate studies at Wharton. She was a designer of children's play spaces, Williamstown Children's Museum and Sesame Place (a joint venture between CTW and Busch Entertainment and facilities for handicapped children), as well as a marketing director and consultant for a variety of diverse industries, including children's museums, theme parks, and modular construction. Her passion, however, is storytelling.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798200364589
  • Publisher: Tantor Audio
  • Publisher Imprint: Tantor Audio
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: An American Kid in Saigon
  • ISBN-10: 8200364585
  • Publisher Date: 19 Mar 2019
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Returnable: N


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