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Isabel Allende, Introduction of Lan Cao

Mar 04, 2020 by Lan Cao
Isabel Allende, Introduction of Lan Cao, Book Passage, Corte Madera, July 28, 1997

Judith Coburn, Starting Over, LA Times

Mar 03, 2020 by Lan Cao

Judith Coburn, Starting Over, LA Times, September 14, 1997. Read more. 

Donna Seaman, June 1, 1997, Booklist

Mar 02, 2020 by Lan Cao
Donna Seaman, June 1, 1997, Booklist. Read More.

Jeanne Schinto, The Women’s Review of Books

Mar 01, 2020 by Lan Cao
Jeanne Schinto, The Women’s Review of Books, pages 10-11, July 1997. Read more. 

Mary K. Feeney, Two Stories of Loss, Love, Assimilation, Hartford Courant

Feb 28, 2020 by Lan Cao
Two Stories of Loss, Love, Assimilation, Hartford Courant (Connecticut) August 17, 1997; Arts, pG3, Mary K. Feeney

 

Fran Bauer, A Journey Away From War To New Ground, Haunting Bridge’ Travels Beyond Saigon, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Feb 25, 2020 by Lan Cao

Fran Bauer, A Journey Away From War To New Ground, Haunting Bridge’ Travels Beyond Saigon, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin) August 31, 1997. Pg. 9

 

John Marshall, An Immigrant’s Tale: Novel First to Tell The Experiences of Vietnamese in U.S., Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Feb 21, 2020 by Lan Cao
John Marshall, An Immigrant’s Tale: Novel First to Tell The Experiences of Vietnamese in U.S., Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 26, 1997

Brent Kliewer - Novel moves between Vietnam and America, Santa Fe, New Mexican (New Mexico)

Feb 18, 2020 by Lan Cao

Novel moves between Vietnam and America, Santa Fe, New Mexican (New Mexico) July 20, 1997, Brent Kliewer. Read more. 

Anne Morris, ‘The necessity for building bridges’; Lan Cao reveals Vietnam, Austin American-Statesman

Feb 17, 2020 by Lan Cao

Anne Morris, ‘The necessity for building bridges’; Lan Cao reveals Vietnam, Austin American-Statesman (Texas), July 5, 1998 p. D8. Read more. 

Merle Rubin, Riveting Tales of Romance and War, Christian Science Monitor

Feb 17, 2020 by Lan Cao
Merle Rubin, Riveting Tales of Romance and War, Christian Science Monitor, July 14, 1997. Read more.

The Lotus and the Storm by Lan Cao

Nov 08, 2014 by Lan Cao
Historical Novel Society, November 2014 view online article

Cao's Great Literary Endeavor Pulls No Punches

Nov 08, 2014 by Lan Cao
Author Exposure, November 2014 view online article

War Fractures

Oct 10, 2014 by Lan Cao
The Los Angeles Review of Books view online article

Eric Nguyen Reviews 'The Lotus and the Storm' By Lan Cao

Oct 08, 2014 by Lan Cao
DiaCRITICS, October 2014 view online article

A Different Kind of Vietnam Story

Oct 08, 2014 by Lan Cao
The Daily Beast, October 2014 view online article

The Lotus and the Storm by Lan Cao

Sep 28, 2014 by Lan Cao
The VVA Veteran Books in Review II, September 2014 view online article

Book review: The Lotus and the Storm

Sep 14, 2014 by Lan Cao
South China Morning Post, September 2014 view online article

The Lotus and the Storm – A Delicate Balance

Sep 11, 2014 by Lan Cao
DiaCRITICS, September 2014 view online article

Lan Cao on Vietnam and the Lives of Those Left Behind

Aug 18, 2014 by Lan Cao
Biographile, August 2014 view online article

Bridget Thoreson, Review

Aug 02, 2014 by Lan Cao
The Lotus and the Storm. Lan Cao. Aug. 2014. 400p. Viking, hardcover, $27.95 (9780670016921).

For all that has been written about the Vietnam War, little has come from the perspective of the South Vietnamese whose lives were shattered in the conflict. Cao looks to rectify that imbalance in this complex tale of a father and daughter who fled to America, forever marked by the war and its aftermath. The novel, which is informed by the author’s own life, spans major events such as the Tet Offensive and the exodus from Vietnam following the Communist takeover of Saigon. But the immersive core of this story is on a much more domestic scale, as both Mai and her father, Minh, struggle with the...