Making of Little Saigon

<P>A collective memoir of community reimagining <I>The Making of Little Saigon</I> orchestrates the voices of activists writers artists entrepreneurs and scholars who have inhabited and nurtured Little Saigon Orange County California into a beloved sanctuary—a sumptuous enclave of Vietnamese refugees and immigrants in the US. This constellation of narratives chronicles collective memories of settlement nostalgia (dis)enchantments and aspirations as the community has evolved over time. From oceanic crossings to forging a new home every story interweaves and reverberates with a history of pain and beauty disunity and solidarity failure and resilience as the community careens forward into an uncertain future.</P><P></P>