PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Straight, Susan
TI  - From the Green of Vietnam to Toes Painted with Nirvana
AID  - 10.1525/boom.2016.6.4.10
DP  - 2016 Dec 01
TA  - Boom: A Journal of California
PG  - 10--15
VI  - 6
IP  - 4
4099  - http://boom.ucpress.edu/content/6/4/10.short
4100  - http://boom.ucpress.edu/content/6/4/10.full
AB  - Thousands of women who survived the Vietnam War, whose husbands were sent to reeducation camps after working with American military, now live in the US, where nail salons anchor almost every strip mall and flourish inside luxury malls as well. The history of how Vietnamese women came to work in the nail industry and how Americans became accustomed to manicures and pedicures is entwined with the loss of home and landscape.