Monique Truong

“Recognizing the Stranger” convo w/ Vietnamese German novelist @pham-fatale.bsky.social & me, Tues, Oct 21, 6:30 pm at Goethe-Insitut NYC, free w/ rsvp. www.eventbrite.com/e/festival-n...

Q: What text have you written that feels especially important now?

A: Lttr to Paddington Bear & empathy.

15.10.2025 22:27 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Lana Lin: The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam w/ Monique Truong | Books Are Magic Your Favorite Indie Bookstore!

BOOK LAUNCH TONIGHT! 7pm ET! THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM!

Lana Lin will be in conversation with @moniquetruong.bsky.social at Books Are Magic (& streaming online, too).

www.booksaremagic.net/events/32868...

01.10.2025 13:33 — 👍 26    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Vinh Nguyen will be in conversation with Monique Truong this Thurs, 7PM, Yu & Me Books, NYC. The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse is poetry disguised in paragraphs. These 2 writers, stars.
#canlit #booksky #memoir #literature #vietlit #read
@cousinvinnhy.bsky.social @moniquetruong.bsky.social

21.04.2025 20:41 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse: A Memory of Vietnam by Vinh Nguyen New Quarterly editor Nguyen (Lived Refuge) reflects on his father’s life and his own experiences as a Vietnam War refugee in thi...

Early praise is rolling in for THE MIGRANT RAIN FALLS IN REVERSE! Publishers Weekly calls it "Inventive. . . [Nguyen] nimbly transports readers to a blurry past and immerses them in the biographical ambiguities of life as a refugee."

06.02.2025 17:17 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."

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It's my first day as the @houstonchronicle.com's new restaurant critic. There's a lot of ground to cover in the country's fourth largest city. As always, appreciative of any and all restaurant tips! TIA!

11.02.2025 21:54 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yoko-tawada-with-monique-truong-tickets-1245253870849

March 25, 6-8 pm, Rizzoli Bookstore in NYC, I'll speak w/ Yoko Tawada about her novels SUGGESTED IN THE STARS, trans. Margaret Mitsutani, and PAUL CELAN AND THE TRANS-TIBETAN ANGEL, trans. @translationista.bsky.social, from @ndbooks.bsky.social. Registration free.
www.eventbrite.com/e/yoko-tawad...

18.02.2025 21:16 — 👍 19    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1

Learn about Tết with the authors of Mai's Áo Dài! Authors Thái Nguyễn and Monique Truong talk about traditions for Tết, the Lunar New Year. Read more in their picture book, Mai's Áo Dài, on sale now!

#MaisAoDai co-authors Thai Nguyen and Monique Truong introduce us to Vietnamese Lunar New Year, Tết!
Watch here: bit.ly/4h5SUWc

29.01.2025 18:18 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Celebrate Lunar New Year with These 9 Books for Kids, Tweens, and Teens Young readers of all ages can enjoy the various activites involved with Lunar New Year as they read these titles.

Young readers of all ages can enjoy the various activities involved with Lunar New Year as they read these titles.

23.01.2025 13:52 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

I’ll be leaving FB & Insta as of Feb 28. All my Mai's Áo Dài posts & reposts will be here!

21.01.2025 02:45 — 👍 54    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1