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| 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/
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/
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
