Darkness and Light Intertwined - Tran, Kaylon B; Miblart. com
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How far would you go to survive? In 1954 Vietnam 16-year-old Chi Anh Ong found herself pregnant by a foreign soldier. Forced to give up her baby, abandoned by her lover, and betrayed by her father, Chi joined the Viet Cong and channeled a lifetime of resentment and anger into killing American soldiers. Decades later and now living in America, the secrets of her past threaten to destroy her future. Chi's daughter, Linh, had no memory of her mother. As a child, she lived on the streets of war-torn Vietnam. As a teenager, she chose prostitution over starvation. After meeting an American soldier…mehr

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How far would you go to survive? In 1954 Vietnam 16-year-old Chi Anh Ong found herself pregnant by a foreign soldier. Forced to give up her baby, abandoned by her lover, and betrayed by her father, Chi joined the Viet Cong and channeled a lifetime of resentment and anger into killing American soldiers. Decades later and now living in America, the secrets of her past threaten to destroy her future. Chi's daughter, Linh, had no memory of her mother. As a child, she lived on the streets of war-torn Vietnam. As a teenager, she chose prostitution over starvation. After meeting an American soldier and falling in love, Linh dreams of a better life. But will he reject her once he knows her darkest secret? Spanning generations and continents, Darkness and Light Intertwined tells the gut-wrenching saga of soldiers and civilians brought together and torn apart by war or circumstance and the struggles and successes they encounter as they each pursue their own American dream.
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Kaylon Bruner Tran, PhD is best known for her medical research studies examining endometriosis and the generational effects of environmental toxicant exposure. For more than two decades, Kaylon served as the primary writer of scientific documents emanating from the Women's Reproductive Health Research Center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. In 2021, she wrote her first novel, Time Intertwined.Kaylon Bruner Tran has always loved to write, but becoming a novelist was never on her bucket list. When she took a creative writing class in high school, she found she had a knack for writing non-fiction. She interviewed classmates and enjoyed putting their stories on paper. Kaylon was excited when the time came to write the required senior English paper. She started her research early and finished her paper well before the deadline. A couple of her classmates were less enthusiastic about the project and turned to Kaylon for help. In the end, she wrote two senior papers in addition to her own (please don't tell Ms. Ammons!). When Kaylon's mediocre math skills put her dream of becoming an astronaut out of reach, she pursued a career in medical research instead. Kaylon received her PhD in Reproductive Pathology from Vanderbilt University in 1995 and spent 30 years investigating the causes and potential treatments of reproductive diseases. Reflecting her long-standing love of writing, Kaylon gladly took on the added responsibility of writing the majority of scientific documents emanating from Vanderbilt's Women's Reproductive Health Research Center. In 2021, curious about their genealogy, Kaylon and her family decided to take DNA tests. That decision led to the unexpected finding of a previously unknown relative. Kaylon was fascinated by her new relative's story and used it as the inspiration for her first novel, Time Intertwined. The historical fiction novel drew heavily on Kaylon's ability to present factual information in a compelling manner as she crafted an emotional family saga against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. She found the creative freedom of weaving a fictional story with historical events addictive, and her first book was soon followed by several more. Now, after three decades in the laboratory, Kaylon has decided to hang up her lab coat and spend more time with her keyboard.