Oanh Ngo Usadi: Vietnamese-American Memoirist

For this episode, we’re sharing a conversation with Oanh Ngo Usadi which first aired on the first episode of season V of Bayoulands earlier this year. Her memoir "Of Monkey Bridges and Banh Mi Sandwiches: from Saigon to Texas," recalls her life before and after the fall of Saigon, from exile in the Mekong Delta to refugee camps in Malaysia and the Philippines, and ultimately resettlement in Port Arthur, Texas. Our thanks to Oanh Ngo Usadi for sharing her story for Bayoulands. Her memoir "Of Monkey Bridges and Banh Mi Sandwiches: from Saigon to Texas" was self-published in 2018 and her stories have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and other publications as well as the Moth Radio Hour: themoth.org/stories/sandwiches-neighbors If you enjoyed this episode, please remember to share it and subscribe to Bayoulands TALKS wherever you find your podcasts. You can also listen on NPR One along with other podcast offerings from KVLU public radio. And join us on social media at 91.3 KVLU Public Radio on Facebook and bayoulands on Instagram. Bayoulands TALKS is produced in the studios of 91.3 KVLU Public Radio in Beaumont, Texas by Shannon Harris and Jason M. Miller. For more information and to stream KVLU online visit: kvlu.org.