Book Reading on 2 May

Sue and Judy of Reelbooks have invited me to present my book at L'Aigle Noir Hotel on Wednesday, 2 May at 4 pm. Please come and join us for coffee, tea and sweets. I will make a Vietnamese cake!

L'Aigle Noir Hotel
27 Place Napoleon Bonaparte
Fontainebleau

See you there!

To Late Blossom's readers

Many thanks to Crossroads' members who had come to my book presentation at Maison des Associations on 3 April. I am especially grateful to all of you who had purchased the book at the meeting. And I am so thrilled that members of the Candle Light Book Club had chosen Late Blossom for April reading. While reading, you have probably noticed at least a few mistakes in the text. There was also a discrepancy on the Vietnamese death toll during the American war (it was three millions, not half a million as stated in the Q&A). With my apology. These will be corrected in the second printing in May.

Just Published

As of April 2, 2007, Late Blossom was released. The book is available through Amazon.com. This is a memoir of growing up in Viet Nam during the French war and the American war.

I always felt that the extent of war destruction in my country had never been fully revealed to outsiders from the Vietnamese point of view. To share with the Western world their suffering and struggle to free themselves from foreign domination was my reason for writing this memoir.

All royalties I myself receive from this book will be donated to my home village in the Mekong Delta. Thirty-two years after the war, it has not recovered. The village has no hospital or medical clinic. There is one elementary school and nothing else for the children. The people are still badly affected by the damages from intensive bombing, chemical defoliants, and Agent Orange.