An excerpt from Catching Shrimp with Bare Hands appears this month in The Missing Slate, an international arts and literary journal dedicated to upholding free speech around the world:
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER: APRIL 30, 1975
“I’d like to find out where the one-way ticket goes, though. China has Taiwan and Korea has South Korea. Where will we go? To some tiny island somewhere? Wherever it is will be freedom.”
Michelle Robin La shares the first person account of her husband’s experience as a child in the Vietnam on April 30th, 1975.