Last Flight

Picture book

     When Kristin Mae Giang was only eighteen months old she and her family were on the last commercial flight ✈️ allowed out of Saigon.  It was decades before she learned that she was part of that historic event.  Her Last Flight is a fictionalized narrative of the event from the perspective of her then eight-year-old sister.

     The fall of Saigon is described from a child's viewpoint.  The booms 💥 come closer.  Tear gas hurts.  Finally there is only one flight to safety and huge obstacles in the way of getting on it.

     This is a picture book for older children ready to ask questions, old enough to empathize with kids in perilous situations needing to flee to safety with obstacles in the way--then and sadly now.  Kids who will hopefully grow up to demand change.

On a purrrsonal note, apart from breakfast at Governors yesterday this has been a work weekend.  For me it's homework, getting ready for week 3 of fall semester, and the perpetual cooking and cleaning.  My big, ambitious project was a thorough refrigerator clean.  Eugene is working on getting a new oil barrel before heating fuel deliveries start.  (Jules)

He buys that stuff that keeps our home toasty warm when it's blustery cold 🥶 outside.  (Tobago)

A great big shout out goes out to Eugene.

Tobago and Jules Hathaway 

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