Matt Pin is a boy who was airlifted out of war torn Vietnam when he was a little child. He is a son of an American father and a Vietnamese mother. Now he is living in the United States with his adoptive parents.
Matt Pin is haunted: by bombs that fell like dead crows, by the family, and the terrible secret,he left behind. He is bullied by a boy in school who keeps saying to him; 'my brother died because of you!' , meaning that his brother fought on the American side during the war. But Matt is succesful in sports, and the baseball team wins a few games because of him. But then his coach is diagnosed with cancer and they get a new coach, will the team keep playing at the same level they did?
The book is written in verse form, which makes it an easy and quick to read book. Ann E.Burg did a wonderful job with writing a story this way. It was very dreamy and I thought Matt had amazing adoptive parents. Very differently written and very original.
This was the final book review in the Vietnam theme, I had so much fun reading Vietnam related book this month! But now its time to get back to all the other topics and genres, Goodbye Vietnam!
