Quan Barry - She Weeps Each Time You're Born

Fitzgerald, Frances. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam . New York: Back Bay Books, 1972.

Le, Huu Tri. Prisoner of the Word: A Memoir of the Vietnamese Reeducation Camps . Seattle: Black Heron Press, 2001.

Tran, Tu Binh. The Red Earth: A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation . Athens, OH: Ohio University, Center for International Studies, 1985.

The insights into life and death on this page are quotations from the Buddha.

The poem etched in Little Mother’s conical straw hat on this page is taken from Ca Dao Vietnam: Vietnamese Folk Poetry , translated by John Balaban.

Much of the language in the interludes “Baby, sleep well” on this page and “Beloved, stay with me” on this page is taken from Vietnamese children’s songs that can be found at http://​www.​mamalisa.​com.

On this page the line “After life there must be life” is taken from Lucie Brock-Broido’s poem “After the Grand Perhaps” from the book A Hunger .

Specific incidents in the chapter “And the Water Was Made as Glass” come from Hung Nguyen’s escape narrative titled “Coffee Shop from Two Spoons” in Voices of Vietnamese Boat People . An’s experiences in a reeducation camp draw heavily from Huu Tri Le’s Prisoner of the Word and Van Toai Doan and David Chanoff’s The Vietnamese Gulag .

The interlude “The old songs seem so foreign to us now” on this page is the Vietnamese national anthem.

On page 256 the opening line is taken from C. D. Wright’s One with Others .

Some language, which occurs most often in interludes, originally appeared in Quan Barry’s poetry collection titled Water Puppets , published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2011.

The language of governmental charges against Rabbit was taken from the 2011 International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) report “Rule of Law or Rule by Law? Crime and Punishment in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,” which can be found at www.​queme.​net/​eng/​doc/​Crime_​and_​Punishment_​in_​Vietnam.​pdf.