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Danielle Flood

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Saigon, French Indochina
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For much of my life, I was deprived of most of my family. My mother wasn't telling me who my father was or what she -- tall, beautiful, French and Vietnamese -- was doing in Saigon, French Indochina, where I was born, when it was run by the French. In 1948-53, my three parents fell in love there -- a terrorism cradle with five hand grenades thrown a day and assassinations quite common. I literally come from warring factions. After living in Japan and Thailand, I was brought to America as a small child, speaking Chinese because that’s what my amah (nanny) spoke to me. I learned English in Washington, D.C. and area public schools and was then taught by nuns in Baltimore, New York and Dublin. It would take me decades to learn who I was, who I ...more

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An Excerpt from THE UNQUIET DAUGHTER

The prologue and first two chapters of my memoir, THE UNQUIET DAUGHTER, can be read here: http://danielleflood.com/id58.html Thank you for your interest in my work. My best, Danielle
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“I would be grateful for a brain transplant from a sharp octogenarian, so I could skip future surprises arising from the teenage decision-making process in which consequences are a vague, often-underused concept and drama is inevitable and exhausting. When”
Danielle Flood, The Unquiet Daughter

“Without a watch or a clock, you cannot tell whether it’s day or night, and so it is a world created by its occupants.”
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“You have to watch out for Rejection Residue.”
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“Back then I used to say that I despised the new coinage “quality time,” that it was yuppie parents’ smiley-face equivalent to lawyers’ “billable hours.”
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“Then I read The Once and Future King, and for most of a year I was young Arthur, Dad was Merlyn, and it was my destiny to create the perfect kingdom of Camelot somewhere beyond northeastern Illinois.”
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