Details:
- author: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
- full title: Dust Child
- narrator: Quyen Ngo
- genre: general fiction
- country: Vietnam
- topics: #vietnamwar, #amerasians, #childrenofwar
- publisher: Bolinda Audio
- publish date: 01 May 2023
- timing: 12:27:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙.5
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
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My Thoughts:
This novel contains several stories. Two sisters are forced to leave their home village for Saigon to help their parents pay their debts. They become »bar girls« that entertain American soldiers. Decades later, we follow the stories of Phong and Dan. Phong, an Amerasian, was raised in an orphanage and wants to find his father and a better life in America. Racism and poverty marked his life in Vietnam, and he doesn’t want that for his children. Dan, a war veteran, returns to Vietnam to deal with his PTSD.
The narration was great. Once again, Quyen Ngo brought a Vietnamese story to life.
About the Author:
Born and raised in Việt Nam, Dr. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai is the author of the international bestseller The Mountains Sing, runner-up for the 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the 2020 BookBrowse Best Debut Award, the 2021 International Book Awards, the 2021 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, and the 2020 Lannan Literary Award Fellowship for Fiction. She has published twelve books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in Vietnamese and English and has received some of the top literary prizes in Việt Nam including the Poetry of the Year 2010 from the Hà Nội Writers Association. Her writing has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in major publications including the New York Times. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She was named by Forbes Vietnam as one of 20 inspiring women of 2021. Her second novel in English, Dust Child, is forthcoming in March 2023.
About the Narrator:
Quyen Ngo is an actor and creator based in Los Angeles. She is also an Audie-nominated audiobook narrator, and a founding board member of Young Entertainment Activists.
