#hemhouse

We Cannot Get to Our Little Pile of Bricks, Behind the Barricades…

An unfinished love affair with a pair of hem houses (một cặp nhà hem) Photo Credit Anouska Parr — One of the Onion Houses (hem: alley or lane, normally very small, our hem is so tiny it only fits scooters) It’s a different world, it has taken me almost five years to navigate, and I am still learning. In the South of Vietnam, trust is everything, people are suspicious of newcomers (and rightly…