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...Vietnam's most popular singers, is working out in her gym in the Saigon Center. Drops of rain are starting to splash on the windows--and she has to get to a rehearsal later for a concert she is giving over the weekend. Only Nguyen Quang Huy is oblivious to the coming deluge. The 21-year-old bar owner and music promoter is shut in a soundproof recording studio in his home, coaching a new band...
Lien, Xuan, Nhung and Huy have never met, but they are from the same generation--those for whom the war never happened. Children of one of the starkest generation gaps in the world, they have no interest in hearing about the hardships their parents endured in a war that ended a quarter-century ago. All four are Vietnamese but have ambivalent feelings about Vietnam, a country no longer communist but not yet democratic or free...
Nguyen Quang Huy sees a lot of Viet Kieu in his bar, the Hot Club. "The younger ones we can get on with," he says. "It is the older ones who are difficult sometimes, with their memories of before." He is leaning against the counter, drinking a Corona and watching one of the bands he is promoting. They begin with a love song. Huy frowns. "Now that could be a problem for us if the police come in." The song is by a Vietnamese band in the U.S. "Not allowed here." More than anything, Huy wants to make money. Fast...
...where the waitresses sing as they deliver the food. Xuan ducked work in order to spend time with his soon-to-be wife--his first holiday since 1996. Nhung was onstage in the Long Phung Culture Center, singing the songs of Trinh Cong Son to a rapt audience. And Huy was back in the Hot Club, coaxing another new act, looking for that smile...
...from Leverett; Swaine L. Chen, Steven A. Engel, and Michael J. Puri from Lowell; Jill A. Corcoran, Anne O. Decker, and Michael I. Schwartz from Mather; Emerson H. Liu, Sanjay Shetty, and Canh P. Vu from Pforzheimer; Barak Ben Gal, Manjul Bhargava, Kiran S. Kedlaya, Lenhard Lee Ng, Thinh Huy Nguyen, Adib R. Pasha, Adam Kempton Webb, Timothy P. Yu, and Noah T. Zinkin from Quincy; Steven W. Hetts, Brian D. Koh, David B. Lat, and Elizabeth J. Riemer from Winthrop...