When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the autobiography of Le Ly Hayslip, a Vietnamese woman who came of age during the Vietnam War. Hayslip's journey took her from war-torn Vietnam to America and then back to the land of her birth over a decade after the war's end. She endured unimaginable hardships during her time in the war, serving as a lookout for Vietcong forces and facing harsh reprisals from the South Vietnamese. The book dwells on the horrors of war and the price paid by innocent bystanders.
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