The Saigon Sisters shares the stories of nine Vietnamese women who as childhood friends studied at a premier French school in Saigon and as adults chose to support Vietnam’s fight for independence. Through many interviews, letters, and exchanges, author Patricia Norland traces these women’s individual stories as they follow different paths in pursuit of a shared ideal and how their stories converge again after the war.

Join the Stimson Institute for a book launch discussion with Patricia Norland, author of The Saigon Sisters and a former public diplomacy officer with the U.S. Department of State, and Professor Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Chair in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University.

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