Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, DUST CHILD
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Zibby speaks to award-winning author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai about Dust Child, a powerful and hauntingly beautiful saga about two Vietnamese sisters, an American veteran, and an Amerasian man whose lives intersect in surprising ways, set during and after the war in Vietnam. Nguyễn reveals how her experience working with veterans, reuniting war-separated families, and bringing former enemies together (in addition to her own memories of the war) inspired this novel. She also describes the lives of abandoned Amerasian children in Vietnam (the children of the dust) and explains how she used poetry, music, nature, and joy to create a book that is as much about trauma as it is about healing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
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| 1:03.5 | Nogoyen Fahn K. May is the author of Dust Child. Born and raised in Vietnam, |
| 1:09.2 | she is the author of the international bestseller, |
| 1:11.7 | The Mountain Singh, runner up for the 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the 2020 |
| 1:17.9 | Book Brow's Best debut award, the 2021 International Book Awards, the 2021 Penn Oakland, Josephine |
| 1:23.6 | Miles Literary Award, and the 2020 Lennon Literary Award Fellowship for Fiction. |
| 1:29.0 | She has published 12 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in Vietnamese and English, |
| 1:33.4 | and has received some of the top literary prizes in Vietnam, including the poetry of the year 2010 |
| 1:38.0 | from the Hanoi Writers Association. Her writing has been translated into 20 languages |
| 1:42.7 | and has appeared in major publications, including The New York Times. |
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