Heart-broken I had to cancel my U.S. book tour events with Unbound Book Festival LA Times Festival of Books Main Street Books Warwick's to fly home in Vietnam. Thank you so much for your support and understanding.

Loved Dust Child so much I had to get The Mountains Sing. It's equally as stunning.

Diệu Lan is a grandmother you would love to have, someone who listens and shares stories. Hương has a legacy of war to endure, yet sees a future with love and hope. Dr. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s The Mountains Sing grants readers a deeper understanding of the impact of wars on human lives

HARD-SELLING THE PAPERBACK RELEASE OF MY NOVEL! 🤣 Available NOW online & in bookshops!📚🌙

Benefits of a paperback, you say?📖
- smaller & easier to carry around! 💼
- an entirely gorgeous, NEW cover! 😍
- CHEAPER! 💵
- easier to balance on your head😂
#TheMoonRepresentsMyHeart

Only 3 weeks until LA Times Festival of Books! Can’t wait to see awesome authors like Natashia Deon Samira Ahmed updates Dr Eugenia Cheng --no advice please-- Paula Yoo 유보라 Michele Norris Angie Kim Abigail Hing Wen Updates Melissa Sevigny Dr. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai Karen Tei Yamashita Jesse Q. Sutanto Rosanna Xia, among so many others!

Room to Read's #girlseducation team recently conducted a deep review of our #lifeskills curriculum to ensure our content meets the evolving needs of students. The result? New classes on financial literacy, climate justice, mental health and more. Read on: bit.ly/4a7FeGq

'THE MOUNTAINS SING's cover has been made into a tile & is a part of the ceiling of the central area of BVIS - HCMC Library'. Mrs. Trúc Nguyễn, librarian of the British Vietnamese International School, HCM City wrote me. I really hope this book can be published in Vietnam soon.

In 1972, while on vacation, Stefano Mariottini, an engineer from Rome, snorkeling off the coast of Monasterace near Riace, noticed a human hand sticking out of the sand. Deciding that it was a corpse, he called the police.

From the bottom of the Ionian Sea, two statues of…

I highly recommend catching Dr. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai in person if you can - an outstanding novel! Warwick's warwicks.com/event/nguyen-2…

HBO's adaptation of The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen will be premiered on 14 April and I am getting ready for it by re-reading the author's books.

Pour fêter le printemps, #koimagazinefr et la #LibrairieLePhenix ont sélectionné 9 livres :

📚 « Là où fleurissent les cendres » de Dr. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Éditions Charleston

L’autrice nous raconte le destin des enfants métisses nés pendant la guerre du Vietnam 🇻🇳
#roman #vietnam

South Korea court orders first compensation for Vietnam war victim reut.rs/3JQutOz

Thrilled to return to Warwick's for an intimate event at 7pm, 25 April in La Jolla, CA. And you bet I will be singing and reading a poem in Vietnamese & make the audience laugh. Join me if you are closeby. Thanks Algonquin Books for organising. warwicks.com/event/nguyen-2…

Thank you Portugal for welcoming The Mountains Sing so warmly.

QUANDO AS MONTANHAS CANTAM is available now wherever books are sold, beautifully translated by Carla Ribeiro and published with care and love by Alma dos Livros
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Can't wait to bring Vietnamese storytelling traditions to L.A. Join me at LA Times Festival of Books! Can't wait for my panel on Sunday April 21 with Sasha Vasilyuk Dr. Melissa Chadburn Crystal Hana Kim | 김하나 & Myriam Chancy. #bookfest
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Journey from India to Palestine, from Vietnam to midcentury America in these bookclub reads recommended by BookPage, published by Harper Perennial Hogarth Books Algonquin Books William Morrow and authored by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Regina Porter bookpage.com/?p=201289

Hi hi, do you live in NY, Chicago, LA, or DC? Come on tour with me for THE STONE HOME.

crystalhanakim.com/events/ for more info 🪽

Meet Myra Garces-Bacsal, your GlobalLiteratureinLibrariesInitiative guest curator for #UAE Reads . All this month, she and her contributors will be featuring titles that represent the diverse demography of the United Arab Emirates.

Follow along! Here's her first post:

glli-us.org/2024/03/01/wel…

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I can't believe it! My novel has just been reviewed on Le Monde des livres, the prestigious French newspaper! Grateful thanks to the support of the critic Nils C. Ahl and editors of Le Monde des livres, as well as my team at Éditions Charleston and EditionPoint

‼️The 2024 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books lineup is here! ‼️ The nation’s largest literary festival returns to @uscedu April 20 and 21 with hundreds of your favorite authors, artists, celebrities, musicians, poets, exhibitors, and more!

Check it out at latimes.com/fob! 📚💕