{"id":5429,"date":"2012-03-30T15:29:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T20:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=5429"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:37:18","slug":"mai-elliott-a-familys-journey-through-war-and-peace-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2012\/03\/30\/mai-elliott-a-familys-journey-through-war-and-peace-in-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Mai Elliott: A Family&#8217;s Journey Through War and Peace in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h2>Friends of the Loyola Libraries Speaker Series<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/files\/2012\/02\/MaiElliott_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2012\/02\/MaiElliott_1-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2012\/02\/MaiElliott_1-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2012\/02\/MaiElliott_1-747x1024.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 6:00 p.m.<br \/>\nKlarchek Information Commons 4th Floor<br \/>\nLake Shore Campus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/files\/2012\/02\/MaiElliott-book-Willow_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2012\/02\/MaiElliott-book-Willow_1-e1330376005186-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5432\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author, Mai Elliott, will describe her multi-generational memoir of fascinating scope and haunting detail, <em>The Scared Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family<\/em>.  She will trace her family\u2019s trials and tribulations through two destructive wars \u2013 the war of liberation against French colonialism and the Vietnam War \u2013 which sliced through Vietnam\u2019s modern era. Elliott will discuss the difficult choices facing her family as they confronted the turbulent events which at times split them apart and sent them fleeing into an unknown future. Come join us as we learn how history has affected one large, well-educated, and idealistic Vietnamese family.  <\/p>\n<p>Free Admission. Book signing will follow presentation.<br \/>\nRSVP to Carol Franklin at cfrankl@luc.edu or 773.508.2641<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends of the Loyola Libraries Speaker Series Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. Klarchek Information Commons 4th Floor Lake Shore Campus Author, Mai Elliott, will describe her multi-generational memoir of fascinating scope and haunting detail, The Scared Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family. She will trace her family\u2019s trials and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[5,1,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5429"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7104,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429\/revisions\/7104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}