They took the babies and sent them to various destinations to get them away from the violence so they can have a better life. Most of these babies were sent straight back to the United States to find a new family waiting for them. Aimee Phan presents us with a group of short stories in “We Should Never Meet,” that features the babies’ lives now as they are all grown up on Operation Babylift. The characters in the stories share their encounters in the Vietnam War and how they are all linked. There is a mother who had to give her child up for adoption, a doctor from the United States that helped take care at the orphanage. There is a Vietnamese social worker who jeopardizes her future only for her family to stay together, a woman struggling to forget her past. These characters play other roles in the other stories as well and Phan does a good job in connecting these
They took the babies and sent them to various destinations to get them away from the violence so they can have a better life. Most of these babies were sent straight back to the United States to find a new family waiting for them. Aimee Phan presents us with a group of short stories in “We Should Never Meet,” that features the babies’ lives now as they are all grown up on Operation Babylift. The characters in the stories share their encounters in the Vietnam War and how they are all linked. There is a mother who had to give her child up for adoption, a doctor from the United States that helped take care at the orphanage. There is a Vietnamese social worker who jeopardizes her future only for her family to stay together, a woman struggling to forget her past. These characters play other roles in the other stories as well and Phan does a good job in connecting these