Monique Truong

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born

Saigon, Viet Nam

gender

female

website

http://www.monique-truong.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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Monique T.D. Truong (born 1968 in Saigon, South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Truong left Vietnam for the United States in 1975. She served in the past as an associate fiction editor for the Asian Pacific American Journal, a literary publication of the Asian American Workshop based in New York City.

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Books by Monique Truong

Average rating: 3.48 · 2,559 ratings · 545 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Book of Salt 3.48 avg rating — 1,846 ratings — published 2003 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Bitter in the Mouth 3.45 avg rating — 648 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World by Jessica Hagedorn (Editor), Christina Chiu (Contributor), Peter Ho Davies (Contributor) 3.77 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Watermark by Barbara Tran, Monique Truong, Truong Khoi Luu 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1998	My rating:

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Quotes by Monique Truong

“The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.”
― Monique Truong, The Book of Salt

5 people liked it

“I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea.”
― Monique Truong, The Book of Salt

tags: asian-american , vietnamese , writing

3 people liked it

“All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own. ”
― Monique Truong, The Book of Salt

tags: alcohol , asian-american , vietnamese , wine , writing

3 people liked it

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