Danielle Flood
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Danielle Flood

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For much of my life, I was deprived of most of my family. My mother wasn't telling me who my father was or what she -- tall, beautiful, French and Vietnamese -- was doing in Saigon, French Indochina, where I was born, when it was run by the French. In 1948-53, my three parents fell in love there -- a terrorism cradle where five hand grenades were thrown a day and assassinations were quite common. I literally come from warring factions. After living in Japan and Thailand, I was brought to America as a small child, speaking Chinese because that’s what my amah (nanny) spoke to me. I learned English in Washington, D.C. and area public schools and was then taught by nuns in Baltimore, New York and in a convent in Dublin. It would take me decades to learn who I was, who I am. I feel the absence of my grandparents, a British aunt who died before I could find her, and the rest of the loved ones who were kept from me for decades -- all of my youth. After years of living at first a privileged life, then suddenly in fear and poverty, an Ivy League university became one of my alma maters. Thought it gave me an anchor, I often feel like a child of the world – stateless. Though mine has been a life of tragedy and sometime happy endings, the years of being a living mystery remain a part of me. The question of who I am, who we all are, is always there. THE UNQUIET DAUGHTER is my tale of love, betrayal and resilience.
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