No Good to Cry by Andrew Lanh (A Rick Van Lam Mystery #3)
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Overview: Up to now, we’ve had a sketchy look at the terrible childhood of Rick van Lam, a bui doi or child of dust, meaning the child of a Vietnamese mother and an American GI father. We met him in Caught Dead working as a Connecticut insurance investigator after resigning from his career in the NYPD. We know that he has “one memory of life in Vietnam: his mother telling him that he was destined to become a police officer, ‘a seeker after justice.’”―Booklist
We learn little more of Rick’s early years in his next case, Return to Dust. But No Good to Cry opens with a scene set in an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City which hit me like a hammer to the heart! Rick is daily tormented and visited with cruelty, like the other children of mixed race. Worse, when another child of dust, this time the son of a Vietnamese mother and a black GI, arrives, rather than befriend him, young Rick turns on Mike Tran, savagely pleased there is a new target for mistreatment, someone the community views as even lower than him. If you think race is primarily an American issue, these pages will disabuse you. And it’s not just the children who are savage; it’s also the nuns.
Genre: Fiction; Mystery/Thriller
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