The Vietnam War has been written about from many points of view in fiction, but for the most part my reading has focused on the years of the war, rife as they are with the atrocities perpetuated on the Vietnamese, both by their own people (ARVN soldiers in the South, Viet Cong in the North) and then the Americans. Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai takes a longer view by ... Read More...
The Mountains Sing: A Novel
Things have gotten a little chaotic in the Gilmore house this week. Nothing for anyone to worry about, by my writing brain is like a Sheltie on meth. Rather than try and scratch out something second-rate, I'm giving more love to a debut novel from last year. The Mountains Sing is a beautiful novel of Vietnam and the war from the perspective of the Vietnamese. The book comes out ... Read More...
The Mountains Sing
If our stories survive, we will not die, even when our bodies are no longer here on this earth. Hương and her grandmother live alone in Hanoi until they are told to evacuate and move to a remote mountain village for their safety. It’s the 1970s and the midst of the Vietnam War. Hương’s parents and her six aunts and uncles are fighting for North Vietnam. Her grandmother ... Read More...
