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  • ISBN 9781597094641
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 227g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Oct 2019
  • Publisher: Red Hen Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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You can go home again. When twenty-three-year-old Maia Trieu, a curator’s assistant at the Museum of Folklore & Rocks in Little Saigon, Orange County, is offered a research grant to Vietnam for the summer of 1991, she cannot refuse. The grant’s sponsor has one stipulation: Maia is to contact her great-aunt to pass on plans to overthrow the current government. The expatriates did not anticipate that Maia would become involved with excursions in search of her mother or attract an entourage: an American traveler, a government agent, an Amerasian singer, and a cat. Maia carries out what she believes is her role as a filial daughter to her late father, a former ARVN soldier, by returning to their homeland to continue the fight for an independent Vietnam. Along the way, however, she meets a cast of characters—historical and fictional, living and dead—who propel her on a journey of self-discovery, through which she begins to understand what it means to love.
About Thuy Da Lam
Thuy Da Lam was born in Qui Nhơn, grew up in Philadelphia, and now lives in Honolulu, where she works on her next book and teaches at Kapi’olani Community College. She holds a BA in creative writing from Hamilton College and PhD in English from UH Mānoa. She received the George A. Watrous Literary Prize for Fiction, Myrtle Clark Writing Award, and John Young Scholarship in the Arts. Her debut novel, Fire Summer, is a revision of her dissertation, part of which appeared in Lost Lake Folk Opera in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. https://thuydalam.com/ Thuy Da Lam was born in Qui Nhơn, grew up in Philadelphia, and now lives in Honolulu, where she works on her next book and teaches at Kapi’olani Community College. She holds a BA in creative writing from Hamilton College and PhD in English from UH Mānoa. She received the George A. Watrous Literary Prize for Fiction, Myrtle Clark Writing Award, and John Young Scholarship in the Arts. Her debut novel, Fire Summer, is a revision of her dissertation, part of which appeared in Lost Lake Folk Opera in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. https://thuydalam.com/ Thuy Da Lam was born in Qui Nhơn, grew up in Philadelphia, and now lives in Honolulu, where she works on her next book and teaches at Kapi’olani Community College. She holds a BA in creative writing from Hamilton College and PhD in English from UH Mānoa. She received the George A. Watrous Literary Prize for Fiction, Myrtle Clark Writing Award, and John Young Scholarship in the Arts. Her debut novel, Fire Summer, is a revision of her dissertation, part of which appeared in Lost Lake Folk Opera in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. https://thuydalam.com/ Thuy Da Lam was born in Qui Nhơn, grew up in Philadelphia, and now lives in Honolulu, where she works on her next book and teaches at Kapi’olani Community College. She holds a BA in creative writing from Hamilton College and PhD in English from UH Mānoa. She received the George A. Watrous Literary Prize for Fiction, Myrtle Clark Writing Award, and John Young Scholarship in the Arts. Her debut novel, Fire Summer, is a revision of her dissertation, part of which appeared in Lost Lake Folk Opera in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. https://thuydalam.com/

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