"letters from my father" is the story of a vietnamese teenager who has grown up without her american father. after the father arranges for his wife and daughter to come to the united states, he is unsure of how to react to his daughter, because all that he knows of her is from pictures and letters. his daughter learns more from her father by discovering some letters that he had written to the united states government in which he angrily and poetically demands his daughter's release, and she longs for him to love her in the way that he expressed his love in those letters.