My bday & when I celebrate my Mother’s Day. Years ago, I wrote about American ritual of bdays & extravagant determination of my Viet mother: monique-truong.com/wp-content/u... ❤️ to biological, adopted, chosen & ALL, regardless of gender, who embody w/ boundless ferocity of the verb “to mother."

Mai's Áo Dài is an ALA Notable Children’s Book 2026! 👧🏻👧🏻👧🏻

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...

Mai at Lincoln Center, David Geffen Hall, Sunday, Feb 22! Doors at 10:30 am. Two storytimes back to back 👧🏻👧🏻

Mai at Lincoln Center!!! Sunday, Feb. 22 at 11 am, David Geffen Hall, Karen & Richard LeFrak Lobby, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza

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!

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.

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

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.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

“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.

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...

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 @cousinvinnhy.bsky.social @moniquetruong.bsky.social

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."

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.

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."

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!

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...

#MaisAoDai co-authors Thai Nguyen and Monique Truong introduce us to Vietnamese Lunar New Year, Tết! Watch here: bit.ly/4h5SUWc

Young readers of all ages can enjoy the various activities involved with Lunar New Year as they read these titles.

I’ll be leaving FB & Insta as of Feb 28. All my Mai's Áo Dài posts & reposts will be here!