Legends of the Promised Land is the passionate memoir recounting the forced immigration of a Vietnamese family to the U.S., following the Vietnam war and the rise of communism in their homeland. In her own words, traditional aphorism, and the voices of her children and husband, the matriarch of the family describes her family's inspirational realization of the American dream, beginning with her lone arrival in the U.S. as a penniless boat person. Xuân-Lan Nguy¿n tells how for six generations her hard-working family amassed wealth that was all lost when the Vietnamese Communists arrived in Saigon in 1975. Her husband, a well-known lawyer in Vietnam and a seventeen-year prisoner of the Vietnamese Communists, eventually joined her, becoming a writer and orator now living with his family in America. She says proudly, "We have three daughters, now three doctors in the medical field in the U.S." Xuân-Lan Nguy¿n is now an English professor at Montgomery College, Maryland. She arrived in America alone and penniless, forced to leave her husband and children behind in Vietnam. Her previous three books are Songs of the Bamboo, The Sea and the Mulberry Field, and Kitty Cat. Publisher's website: http://sbpra.com/XuanLanNguyen