Thuy Rocco, author of “The Last Surviving Child: A Memoir”

Posted March 08, 2022 by Monica Hoel

Nashville native Thuy Nguyen Rocco had never travelled the world until she came to Emory & Henry; and yet, she spent her first days in this world as an international refugee.

Thuy was born in Vietnam in 1980. Her family had helped the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war, so when the United States left it became crucial for people like Thuy’s family to leave the country. “We were considered traitors, so it would have been a death sentence to stay in Vietnam.”

But leaving wasn’t easy. Those wishing to leave had to know the right connections, they had to have money, and they had to avoid imprisonment and death.

Thuy’s family found an opportunity to leave, by boat, but they had a particularly difficult decision to make. Thuy’s mom was pregnant, with her, and couldn’t possibly make the difficult trip by boat. Her father didn’t want to leave part of the family behind, but he also didn’t want to miss the chance to get even part of his family to safety. So, Thuy’s father, her two brothers, her sister, and an aunt who spoke English left by boat to escape the death-sentence of staying in their home country.

But the boat capsized. Thuy’s father, aunt and all siblings died. Thuy’s mother was faced with having to deal with her grief while also giving birth to a child in a country where she knew they weren’t safe.

Thuy has written a book at this experience called The Last Surviving Child: A Memoir that tells of the harrowing experiences of her early childhood and her mother’s commitment to getting them to safer shores. “It took my mother seven tries to escape Vietnam, and she was imprisoned more than once for attempting to leave.”

Thuy remembers part of the escape journey – being terrified of getting caught and having to hide under mounds of fish on a fishing ferry. “I was only 1 or 2 years old. And sometimes we got caught trying to escape because I would cry.”

She also remembers being in the refugee camps along the way – where they didn’t have enough to eat, drank dirty water, and slept so close together with other families that illnesses passed easily and quickly. “A lot of kids didn’t survive the refugee camps.”

It was more than 30 years after these experiences that Thuy summoned the courage to write about what she and her mother had survived. She hoped that telling her story would provide an avenue of understanding for those who had never experienced such hardship; and she hoped it would offer strength and reassurance to others who had.

“When the book first came out, it got a lot of media attention and I got to do a lot of prestigious, high profile events; but my favorite moments were one-on-one conversations with young immigrants and refugees who said, ‘I know your story because I lived it. Thank you for sharing your story so I wouldn’t feel like the only one in the world.” She now leads workshops to help other refugees write their own stories.

Thuy encourages us to use local booksellers to order her book The Last Surviving Child: A Memoir. You can enjoy an extended conversation with Thuy on the Duck Pond Wall podcast, and her on-campus Lyceum talk will be at 7:30 pm on March 14, 2022.

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Thuy Nguyen Rocco
E&H Class of 2002
“Author, consultant, activist, polyglot, martial artist, iron cook, life-long learner, teacher, storyteller”

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<div class="lw_news_image"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/news/899-eamphs-role-in-the-space-race"><picture class="lw_image"><source type="image/webp" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,111,1200,1309/6557_Rusty_Young.rev.1563464303.webp 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,111,1200,1309/6557_Rusty_Young.rev.1563464303.webp 3x" data-origin="responsive"/><source type="image/jpeg" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,111,1200,1309/6557_Rusty_Young.rev.1563464303.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,111,1200,1309/6557_Rusty_Young.rev.1563464303.jpg 3x" data-origin="responsive"/><img src="/live/image/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,111,1200,1309/6557_Rusty_Young.rev.1563464303.jpg" alt="Dr. Rusty Young, E&H Class of 1927. This E&H math and physics professor was the catalyst for many E&H alumni working at NASA ..." width="345" height="225" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,111,1200,1309/6557_Rusty_Young.rev.1563464303.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,111,1200,1309/6557_Rusty_Young.rev.1563464303.jpg 3x" data-max-w="1200" data-max-h="1198" loading="lazy" data-optimized="true"/></picture></a></span></div><div class="lw_widget_text"><h4 class="lw_news_headline"><a href="/live/news/899-eamphs-role-in-the-space-race">E&H’s Role in the Space Race</a></h4><div class="lw_news_summary"> As the US celebrates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, let’s remember our E&H alumni who were part of the success. <a href="/live/news/899-eamphs-role-in-the-space-race" class="link-with-arrow gold">Keep reading</a></div></div>
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