Monique Truong
@moniquetruong.bsky.social
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Writer & Librettist & Eater
https://monique-truong.com/
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I’m a former child refugee, a naturalized US citizen, and I literally wrote The Book of Salt. I approve this message with every bone in my body. image reposted from Recycled Propaganda’s insta, aka artist Izaac Zevalking
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Mai's Áo Dài is an ALA Notable Children’s Book 2026! 👧🏻👧🏻👧🏻
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Simon & Schuster Ed/Library
16 days ago
Each year a committee of ALSC identifies the best of the best in children's books. Congratulations to all our ALA Notable Children’s Book authors of 2026 🥳 For the full list visit here:
www.ala.org/alsc/awardsg...
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Mai at Lincoln Center, David Geffen Hall, Sunday, Feb 22! Doors at 10:30 am. Two storytimes back to back 👧🏻👧🏻
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Mai at Lincoln Center!!! Sunday, Feb. 22 at 11 am, David Geffen Hall, Karen & Richard LeFrak Lobby, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza
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Mai is coming to Jackson Heights QUEENS! This Sunday, Feb. 15, 11 am-2 pm. Join us at The World's Borough Bookshop for storytime and more!
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My first time back to Alief, TX for a reading! Sat, Feb 7, 3-4 pm at Alief branch of Houston Public Library. FREE registration via QR code; books will be on sale thanks to OCA-Greater Houston.
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I’m a former child refugee, a naturalized US citizen, and I literally wrote The Book of Salt. I approve this message with every bone in my body. image reposted from Recycled Propaganda’s insta, aka artist Izaac Zevalking
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MPR News
about 1 month ago
The judge ruled Monday that any removal or transfer of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, is on hold while a court case proceeds. They are currently at a family detention facility in Dilley, Texas, near San Antonio.
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Judge issues temporary order barring removal of boy, 5, and father who were detained in Minnesota
A federal judge has issued a temporary order prohibiting removal of a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father whose arrest last week in Minnesota quickly become another lightning rod for America’s di...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/27/judge-issues-temporary-order-barring-removal-of-5-year-old-detained
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Kristen Radtke
about 1 month ago
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being.
@theverge.com
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/868567/alex-pretti-minneapolis-childhood-friend?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IktWYlQ1a1F1ZUUiLCJwIjoiL3BvbGljeS84Njg1NjcvYWxleC1wcmV0dGktbWlubmVhcG9saXMtY2hpbGRob29kLWZyaWVuZCIsImV4cCI6MTc2OTk2NDA1NSwiaWF0IjoxNzY5NTMyMDU1fQ.FrZ0NlULSpVamKAg761dJTzxcH4-LkVYlrvVVZb2ZFc&utm_medium=gift-link
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“Recognizing the Stranger” convo w/ Vietnamese German novelist
@pham-fatale.bsky.social
& me, Tues, Oct 21, 6:30 pm at Goethe-Insitut NYC, free w/ rsvp.
www.eventbrite.com/e/festival-n...
Q: What text have you written that feels especially important now? A: Lttr to Paddington Bear & empathy.
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Dorothy, a publishing project
5 months ago
BOOK LAUNCH TONIGHT! 7pm ET! THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM! Lana Lin will be in conversation with
@moniquetruong.bsky.social
at Books Are Magic (& streaming online, too).
www.booksaremagic.net/events/32868...
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Lana Lin: The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam w/ Monique Truong | Books Are Magic
Your Favorite Indie Bookstore!
https://www.booksaremagic.net/events/3286820251001
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Barbara Tran
11 months ago
Vinh Nguyen will be in conversation with Monique Truong this Thurs, 7PM, Yu & Me Books, NYC. The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse is poetry disguised in paragraphs. These 2 writers, stars.
#canlit
#booksky
#memoir
#literature
#vietlit
#read
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Catapult Book Group
about 1 year ago
Early praise is rolling in for THE MIGRANT RAIN FALLS IN REVERSE! Publishers Weekly calls it "Inventive. . . [Nguyen] nimbly transports readers to a blurry past and immerses them in the biographical ambiguities of life as a refugee."
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The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse: A Memory of Vietnam by Vinh Nguyen
New Quarterly editor Nguyen (Lived Refuge) reflects on his father’s life and his own experiences as a Vietnam War refugee in thi...
https://buff.ly/4hOwzwj
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Timothy Snyder
12 months ago
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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Timothy Snyder
about 1 year ago
Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."
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Bao Ong
about 1 year ago
It's my first day as the
@houstonchronicle.com
's new restaurant critic. There's a lot of ground to cover in the country's fourth largest city. As always, appreciative of any and all restaurant tips! TIA!
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March 25, 6-8 pm, Rizzoli Bookstore in NYC, I'll speak w/ Yoko Tawada about her novels SUGGESTED IN THE STARS, trans. Margaret Mitsutani, and PAUL CELAN AND THE TRANS-TIBETAN ANGEL, trans.
@translationista.bsky.social
, from
@ndbooks.bsky.social
. Registration free.
www.eventbrite.com/e/yoko-tawad...
about 1 year ago
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Simon & Schuster Ed/Library
about 1 year ago
#MaisAoDai
co-authors Thai Nguyen and Monique Truong introduce us to Vietnamese Lunar New Year, Tết! Watch here:
bit.ly/4h5SUWc
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Learn about Tết with the authors of Mai's Áo Dài!
Authors Thái Nguyễn and Monique Truong talk about traditions for Tết, the Lunar New Year. Read more in their picture book, Mai's Áo Dài, on sale now!
https://bit.ly/4h5SUWc
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School Library Journal
about 1 year ago
Young readers of all ages can enjoy the various activities involved with Lunar New Year as they read these titles.
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Celebrate Lunar New Year with These 9 Books for Kids, Tweens, and Teens
Young readers of all ages can enjoy the various activites involved with Lunar New Year as they read these titles.
https://www.slj.com/story/newsfeatures/celebrate-lunar-new-year-with-these-9-books-for-kids-tweens-and-teens
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I’ll be leaving FB & Insta as of Feb 28. All my Mai's Áo Dài posts & reposts will be here!
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