<Tr> <Th> Genre </Th> <Td> Memoir </Td> </Tr> <P> Le Ly Hayslip ((lej ˨ ˀ ˨ ʔ lɪj ˩ ˀ ˧); born Phùng Thị Lệ Lý; December 19, 1949) is a Vietnamese - American writer, memoirist and humanitarian . Through her foundations, she has worked to rebuild cultural bridges between Vietnam and America following the Vietnam War . </P> <P> Hayslip was born in Ky La, now Xa Hao Qui, a small town in central Vietnam just south of Da Nang . She was the sixth and youngest child born to farmers . American helicopters landed in her village when she was 12 years old . At the age of 14, she endured torture in a South Vietnamese government prison for "revolutionary sympathies". After being released, she had fallen under suspicion of being a government spy, and was sentenced to death but instead of being executed she was raped by two Viet Cong soldiers . </P> <P> She fled to Saigon, where she and her mother worked as housekeepers for a wealthy Vietnamese family, but this position ended after Hayslip's affair with her employer and subsequent pregnancy . Hayslip and her mother fled to Da Nang . During this time, Hayslip supported both her mother and an infant son, Hung (whom she would later rename Jimmy), while unmarried and working in the black market, as an occasional drug courier and, once, as a prostitute . </P>

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