Listen, Slowly

It's stories like these that really make you think about how privileged we may be.

Reading this I thought a lot about my friend who had once told me the story of escaping Vietnam when he was 10 with his mother. At times he carried his mother on his back and they were able to escape in a tiny boat. We were in our mid-twenties when he told me this story and I remember thinking back then how unreal it seemed. How amazing that I knew someone who had lived such a different life than anyone else I knew. How brave and stunningly courageous he was.

I loved reading this. The simple prose that was at times incredibly sad and other times so funny in her observations of life in America. My favorite parts were when she would talk of learning English and how whoever invented English didn't know how to spell. I really, really enjoyed this book.