Description: Collected fiction by contemporary Vietnamese women writers, showcasing both established and emerging voices.
Brief description: Quan Manh Ha is professor of American Literature at the University of Montana. His research interests include multiethnic US literatures, Vietnam War literature, and literary translation. He is the translator of Other Moons: Vietnamese Stories of the American War and Its Aftermath (Columbia UP, 2020) and Luminous Nights: Pioneering Vietnamese Short Stories (La Frémillerie, 2021).
Review Quotes:
"These stories by Vietnamese women carry us into their unique lives
and challenges now that the Vietnam War is over. In this collection of their
voices, gathered from across the nation, one listens to their stories of love
and loss. Reading them is much like sitting in a family courtyard in the
evening and hearing a woman's voice singing a family tale, all of it carried to
us in English by careful translators." --John Balaban,
translator of Ca Dao Việt Nam and Spring Essence: The
Poetry of Hồ Xuân Hương