The Ignorance of Bliss tells the true story of ten-year-old Sandy, who moves with her American military family to Saigon, Vietnam, where he father, the Colonel, serves as a military advisor to the South Vietnamese Army. In 1960s Saigon, Sandy finds a world of crushing poverty and extraordinary beauty; a world of streets, villas, and brothels, where politics and intrigue reside between plot and counterplot. Sandy maneuvers between between coups, spies, bombings, corruption, and scandals as she … [Read more...] about The Ignorance of Bliss: An American Kid in Saigon by Sandy Hanna