NPR's Scott Simon asks Nguyen Phan Que Mai about her novel, "Dust Child," and the intertwined lives of Vietnamese women and U.S. servicemen, and their Amerasian children.

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai's new novel is a luminous, complex family saga that stretches across decades of Vietnamese history, from the French colonial period, through war and upheaval to the present ...

International best-selling author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai was involved in designing the new book jacket design for her second novel, “Dust Child.” “The U.S. cover for &#82… ...

This week on Under the Radar: In a new book, author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai braids together the stories of a young mother hoping for a life in America, an adult son searching for the father he never knew ...

It's well worth listening to. Tom Horgen is Senior Manager of Audience Strategy for the Star Tribune. Dust Child By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai. Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 352 pages, $28.

Nguyên Phan Quê ́ Mai was born in 1973, two years before the end of the Việt Nam War. As a child, she “experienced magic” in the books she read.

Novelist and award-winning Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai shapes her second novel around historical events and then brings them to life through a multi-perspective cast of fictional voices.

4th BOOK REVIEW In ‘Dust Child,’ Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai uses a silken touch in a tale of those left behind after the occupation of Vietnam By Lorraine Berry Updated March 23, 2023, 6:00 p.m.

Which makes Nguyen Phan Que Mai's "The Mountains Sing," the first major novel penned in English by a Vietnamese writer, a breakout moment for Southeast Asia's fastest-growing economy.

By Nguyen Phan Que Mai 342 pp. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. $26.95. A version of this article appears in print on May 24, 2020, Page 14 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Unspeakable ...

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai is an award-winning Vietnamese writer whose debut novel The Mountains Sing, published in English in 2020, won the International Book Awards in 2021 and was runner-up in the ...