The Chance: The true story of one girl’s journey to freedom

When you are twelve, you think you can live forever. Muoi knew that was a lie. She had faced death before, and her chance for freedom would have her face it again and again.Muoi Quan was only nine as she watched in horror as the city of Saigon fell to the Communists. A year later, the military invades her home and destroys her family's business. At age eleven, an escape attempt to China with her cousin ends in Hanoi, with both facing certain death by firing squad. In 1979, she goes to see her older brother as he leaves Vietnam via a dangerous sea crossing. She is standing at the riverside when a twist of fate pushes her forward, onto the boat facing her own chance. Muoi is twelve years old.