Characters
Quotes
Location
Events
100

Kim's foster siblings

Who are Mai and Vinh?

100

___ "wrote of her longing for her dead mother and her native land and her resolution to return to Vietnam one day….____ was soon swept up in her embellishments” (147).

Who is Mai?

100

The city of the orphanage Phuong and Truc drive to

Where is Saigon?

100

The airlifting of children out of Vietnam in 1975

What is Operation Babylift?

200

Huan's mother

Who is Miss Lien?

200

____ said “Finding the past doesn’t make anyone feel better when it’s just bad….Everybody [here hates me]....[My parents] never wanted me” (233)

Who is Huan?

200

The American-based stories take place in this Californian county

What is Orange County?

200

Vinh stole this from the Bac Nguyen's house

What is the jewelry box?

300

Bridget attempts to adopt this orphan

Who is Huan?

300

____ said "[W]hile the people we love are rotting in Vietnam, we’re here enjoying a better life” (97)

Who is Vinh?

300

The most fertile region of Vietnam, with lots of rice paddies

What is the Mekong Delta?

300

The college that Mai wants to attend

What is Wellesley College?

400

This nurse's husband and son are fighting in the war

Who is Hoa?

400

____ “stared at [the shopkeeper], conscious through every blink of her eyes that the woman was changing into something else. Once familiar, the woman became a stranger again. Her features were not so similar to Kim’s, her face, body language not so loving” (50)

Who is Kim?

400

Where is Bridget from?

Pittsburgh, PA

400

Bridget comes home to her husband after this many years

What is 3 years?

500

A nun who broke off her engagement

Who is Phuong?

500

"I see people leaving babies at the orphanage doorstep every day. No one wants to take a child in now, especially when we're losing a war" -- ___ (132)

Who is Hoa?

500

The store that Kim attempts to rob (51)

What is Mekong Gifts

500

The name of Vinh's gang

354