The Tilted Palace: Weeds of Misfortune (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798292829201)

In 1961, the legionnaire and Thuy returned to South Vietnam expecting to live the good life. The French are long gone, and America is working to support this fledgling country whose leaders as well as citizens are suspicious of everything, especially each other.

The reality is strongmen with militias pressing for power, and multiple politicians and political factions with sharp elbows eyeing the Presidential Palace and affecting its balance.

Supported and directed by communism, a guerilla force called Viet Cong is recruiting and stirring things up for the government. Patrick and Thuy did not expect another war, nor to be engaged in it to the bitter end and beyond.

Now, fifteen years after it ended, that American-Vietnam War is seldom spoken of other than when an isolated veteran messes up real bad. Then Vietnam vets are referred to as "drug-crazed baby-killers."

Jimmy Ray Crandall served years in the war. "It ain't right," he would grind out, revealing a hint of his trauma. Just in time he meets the dog. Her owner is a young woman with her own troubles. There is sharing, drinking, and bickering until insight begins to perform little miracles.

Can a return to Saigon be healing?

Old friends with new stories come to the fore. Regardless of it all, the war was lost years ago-no change there. Perspective on the past, however, can change a great many things.

Author: Paul Alenous Kluge
ISBN-13: 9798292829201
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 07/17/2025
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d