RAIN ON THE RED FLAG HAS MADE TO SEMIFINALS OF THE BOOKLIFE PRIZE!
I am so happy to share that my memoir, Rain On The Red Flag, has made it to the semifinals of the BookLife Prize! They will announce the finalists in each category on April 13, so wish me luck. But no matter what happens, the fact that my book was selected as a semifinalist is an honor and I am so grateful. Here is my book Critic's Report on display with the other semifinalists on the BookLife Prize page: Tchaikovsky. A White Butterfly. The Memory of Love. For seventeen-year-old city boy Frank Thanh Nguyen, the official end of the war in Vietnam marked the end of his freedom and the beginning of a harrowing adventure. Rain on the Red Flag details Thanh's remarkable journey, which begins on the day the Communists planted their flag in homes along his street in Saigon. Thanh's only chance of survival was to escape. During several escape attempts Thanh discovered parts of his country and its people that weren't known to him before. Later, Thanh was captured by the undercov