Dee Ratsapho

Taken Out of Laos Dee Ratsapho

With communist forces poised to overtake her home country of Laos, and her father already sent off to die in the work camps, six-year-old Dee, her mother, and her siblings begin the unthinkable act of escaping the only place they know and love. Then after a chance meeting with an American priest, Dee's mother makes the difficult decision to relocate them all to America - a distant land they had only heard about. What follows is the heart-wrenching story of family bonds, hope and survival. It's a story of courage, racism, and abandoned personal and cultural identity. It's the story of a young woman trying to come to terms with who she is in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. And it's the story of a shocking and unlikely reunion that would change everything.