Friday Special Blend
Friday October 18th, 2024 with Micah Petti + Gianluca Petti
Morning picks with Micah and Gianluca. Dear Da-Le: A conversation with Anh Duong and Ashley Da-Lê Duong.

Morning music picks, featuring Eve Goldberg, Loch Nisse Monster, and others. In the second hour, Susan speaks with Anh Duong and Ashley Da-Lê Duong about "Dear Da-Lê: A Father's Memoir of the Vietnam War and the Iranian Revolution." "In an intensely revealing memoir written for his Canadian daughter, a man breaks a lifetime of silence about the traumas of his childhood in war-torn Vietnam and his years as a refugee in revolutionary Iran. Spanning decades and generations, this heartfelt memoir began as a series of letters from a worried father. Anh Duong had witnessed terrible things as a child during the Vietnam War, and later as a refugee in Iran during the revolution of the late 1970s. But like many in the Vietnamese diaspora, he had remained silent about his experiences, believing that trauma was better left unspoken. However, when his daughter became involved in student protests, Duong felt compelled to speak about his own experience of uprisings."