Fresh from Prose in the Park, Caroline Vu launches Second Novel

Caroline Vu with Vincent Lam on the Under The Papaya Tree - Remembering Panel
at Prose in the Park , June 6, 2015 in Ottawa

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

On July 1, 2015, Montreal novelist Caroline Vu will officially launch her second novel, That Summer in Provincetown (published by Guernica Editions). The novel is narrated by Mai, a woman now in her fifties, who traces seventy years and three generations of her family in Vietnam, the USA and Canada. At the novel’s core is the death from AIDS of the narrator’s half-French, half-Vietnamese cousin, Daniel. Once the darling of his extended family, Daniel is shunned when the cause of his illness becomes known. Only his cousin Mai stays loyally by his side. Embittered by rejection, Daniel reveals to Mai the darkest of the family's secrets. And twenty-five years later, she shares them with us.

Born in Vietnam, Caroline Vu spent her childhood in Saigon during the height of the Vietnam War. She left Saigon in 1970, moving first to the US then to Canada. Her childhood memories of war-torn Vietnam and integration into North American life have inspired her two novels: Palawan Story (published by Deux Voiliers Publishing) and That Summer in Provincetown, published by Guernica Editions. Palawan Story was a finalist for the 2014 Concordia University First Book Prize and the International Book Award. 

A passionate traveller, Vu’s travel stories of exotic destinations have been published in the Medical Post. She has published other stories and articles in Doctors' Review, the Toronto Star, the Geneva Times and the Tico Times (Costa Rica). Caroline is also a family doctor, who currently works in Montreal.

For more on Caroline Vu, visit her Facebook Page at:
https://www.facebook.com/CarolineVuNovelist

For more about Caroline Vu, visit her Facebook Page at: https://www.facebook.com/CarolineVuNovelist

To meet Caroline Vu in Montreal, come ou to her book signing for That Summer in Provincetown at the downtown Indigo Store, 1500 McGill College Avenue, on July 12, 2015 from noon to 1:45 pm. You can RSVP to the Google invitation below:

https://plus.google.com/u/2/events/c59vqsdju2co80jrsrtfet7sl68

For review copies of either of Caroline Vu's novel and for media opportunities, you can contact her through deuxvoiliers@gmail.com

Canada`s Newest Literary Festival - Prose in the Park - June 6, 2015, 11 am - 6 pm, Ottawa

CANADA WITNESSES THE BIRTH OF A NEW LITERARY 

FESTIVAL AND BOOK FAIR - PROSE IN THE PARK

On June 6, Canada's newest literary festival and book fair will take place in the Parkdale Park in Ottawa from 11 am to 6 pm. There is an amazing line-up of 79 moderators, panelists, special event authors and authors reading at the open-mic stage. Over 100 authors and publishers will be selling directly to the public hundreds of fine works of fiction and non-fiction. Prose in the Park is free and everyone is welcome. This is an event not to be missed. Click below for the full program.

http://www.proseinthepark.com/#!programpanels/cypo

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For more on Prose in the Park and its fantastic line-up, visit our website:http://www.proseinthepark.com/

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Prose in the Park June 6 - Ottawa Launch of Ocular Proof by John Delacourt

Prose In The Park is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the Ottawa launch of Toronto author John Delacourt's Ocular Proof, published by Seraphim Editions.

"Ocular Proof is an enormously courageous and imaginative undertaking, a most creative reflection on the complexity of creativity." - Modris Eksteins, author of Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age and Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty.

John Delacourt will be on hand to sign copies of the book at the panelists' tent.

Prose in the Park is Canada's newest literary festival and book fair. It takes place in Parkdale Park in Ottawa on June 6, 2015 from 11 am to 6 pm. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome.

Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Prose-in-the-Park/823521187681788

Join the Facebook invitation:https://www.facebook.com/events/1432536553704376/

For more on Prose in the Park and its fantastic line-up, visit our website:http://www.proseinthepark.com/

Denise Chong joins Prose in the Park in Ottawa on June 6

Denise Chong, one of Ottawa's most brilliant writers and Canada's finest minds, has just agreed to moderate the "Under the Papaya Tree - Remembering Vietnam" panel at Prose in the Park on June 6, 2015. Denise will take our panelists, Vincent Lam, Caroline Vu and David Joiner, on a journey through their motivations and personal connections with Vietnam and draw out the ongoing fascination that Canadian novelists and readers have with the Land of Ten Thousand Smiles.

Denise Chong is a two-time finalist for the Governor General’s literary award. She is the author of The Girl in the Picture about the Vietnam War and its most famous casualty, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, who ran, severely burned by napalm, from her blazing village into the eye of history. Denise is also known for her family memoir The Concubine’s Children, a Globe and Mail bestseller for 93 weeks. Described as “beautiful, haunting and wise” by the New York Times Book Review, it is now a Penguin Canada “Modern Classic.”

Prose in the Park is Canada's newest literary festival and book fair. It takes place in Parkdale Park in Ottawa on June 6, 2015 from 11 am to 6 pm. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome.

Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Prose-in-the-Park/823521187681788

Join the Facebook invitation:https://www.facebook.com/events/1432536553704376/

For more on Prose in the Park and its fantastic line-up, visit our website:http://www.proseinthepark.com

PROSE IN THE PARK LITERARY FESTIVAL AND BOOK FAIR

Parkdale Park, Ottawa

June 6, 2015, 11 am - 6 pm

Free Admission

40 Panelists    100 Authors/Vendors  

Care to join us for the first Prose in the Park Open-Air Literary Festival and Book Fair on June 6, 2015 in the Parkdale Park in Ottawa?

There is no entry fee and it will be a lot of fun :)

Prose in the Park is an initiative supported by various writing groups in Ottawa, including, among others, the Ottawa Independent Writers, the Capital Crime Writers, the Ottawa Romance Writers Association, the Ottawa Science Fiction Association and the National Capital Region Chapter of the Canadian Authors Association, the Ottawa Story Tellers and L'Association des Auteures et auteurs de l'Ontario français. It is also kindly supported by the Hintonburg Community Association and Economic Development Committee. Send us an e-mail at proseintheparkottawa@gmail.com, if you are interested in joining the organizing committee or be a volunteer for the event.

Prose in the Park is an established and emerging authors and publishers festival/book fair, similar to The Word On The Street Toronto Festival. You can expect to enjoy a tremendous line-up of panelists and dozens of booksellers. The venue in the Parkdale Market is right beside the Parkdate Market and three blocks away from the Transitway stops on Scott Street. There is also ample parking on the surrounding streets.

Bring your kids along! There will be a lot of illustrated children's books and graphic novels, and the playground in the park will be open for the kids.

There will be more 40 panelists and special events authors, including Giller Prize winner Vincent Lam, Governor General Award Winner Rosemary Sullivan, World Fantasy Award winner Charles de Lint, Aurora Science Fiction and Fantasy winner Julie Czerneda and several Arthur Ellis Crime Fiction Prize winners.

Finally, there will also be more than 100 local and other authors selling their books for book fair prizes. 

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Cheers,

The Prose in the Park Organizing Committee