Reviews of South Wind Changing

A Time magazine “Best Book” of the Year

“A Vietnamese refugee to the U.S. who was a young student in Saigon when the war ended tells movingly of surviving a Marxist re-education camp and escaping Vietnam by boat. His adventures in the U.S. included earning a bachelor’s degree at Bennington College and learning the rhythms of English well enough to write this haunting, oddly pastoral memoir.”—Time

“An unlikely, powerful blending of lyricism with straightforward descriptions of cruelty. . . . A rare record of one Southeast Asian among the anonymous millions who lived to tell the tale."—The New York Times Book Review

“South Wind Changing testifies to the bewildered anguish of the victims of war and to Huynh's survival and escape to America. In his search for a new place in this new world (so intimately involved with the destruction of the old), Huynh encounters discrimination, indifference and—at last—kindness and a second chance. The end of his story is this story by the fine writer that Huynh has become.” —Elle