From the Boat to Building: How a Vietnamese Refugee Girl With Nothing Built Everything

She was six years old the night her mother put sleeping pills in the family's coffee so the children wouldn't make a sound.Gail Le escaped Vietnam by boat with her family, surviving pirates, thirst, and years in a refugee camp before finally reaching America.But leaving Vietnam was only the beginning.She would grow up, become a mother of five, build businesses, lose nearly everything, start over more than once, and eventually become the woman who refused to let where she began determine where she would finish.From the Boat to the Building is not simply a story of success. It is a deeply personal memoir about survival, motherhood, sacrifice, love, loss, forgiveness, and the courage to begin again when life doesn't go according to plan.From a little girl on a crowded boat to a woman building a life she once could never have imagined, Gail's story is a reminder that your beginning does not have to determine your ending.For everyone who has ever had to begin again.