7/6/2023 0 Comments Phuc tran sigh gone![]() And when the South Vietnamese government was collapsing, our family of 12 was waiting in line to get on a bus to take us to the airfield. TRAN: So my grandparents worked for the U.S. And I'll call this moment the bus not taken. ![]() ![]() SIMON: I'd like to go back briefly to that moment your family was leaving Saigon. His memoir "Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir Of Great Books, Punk Rock And The Fight To Fit In - Phuc Tran, who is a teacher, writer, storyteller and a serious tattoo artist, joins us from Portland, Maine. His new memoir tells how a youngster from a refugee family growing up in an industrial Pennsylvania town, where he very often felt dismissed, mocked and bullied, found consolation in Hawthorne, Sartre and punk. Obviously, he was a little boy in 1975 when his family fled Saigon before the advance of the Viet Cong. ![]() I feel the need to begin this interview by asking you this question. ![]()
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