In the Crossfire, by Ngo Van When New York City private

When New York City private investigator Filomena Buscarsela takes her teenaged daughter

an often-humorous book

to tend to the mysterious but beautiful carp in her garden

from tips about craft to understanding the responsibility of writing about animals

In the Crossfire, by Ngo Van When New York City privateIn 1936, Ngo Van was captured, imprisoned, and tortured in the dreaded Maison Centrale prison in Saigon for his part in the struggle to free Vietnam from French colonial rule. Five years later, Vietnamese independence was won, and Van found himself imprisoned and abused once morethis time by the Stalinist freedom fighter Ho Chi Minh. Five years after that, Van was in Paris, working with the surrealists. In the Crossfire documents Ngo Van's incredible