The last time he saw her, his mother shoved him through the screaming crowd into the arms of the soldier hanging from a helicopter. Ten-year-old Matt Pin is swept from war torn Viet Nam.
Lovingly, his American adoptive parents build a new life for him. But at night, Matt dreams of bombs, guns, and flames. He worries about his lost birth mother and his badly injured brother. Everyday, he copes with being different and with a bully who blames Matt for his brother’s death.
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He carries Viet Nam with him, all in broken pieces. Can he love two families? Why did his birth parents leave him? Can he live with the secrets and memories he carries in his heart?
Some people are there for him—his baseball coach, his piano teacher, a new little brother he loves, and his new parents. But can he heal the rift in his heart between the past and the present, between enemies and friends? Can he make a whole life for himself?
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