Author Archive: Harlan Margaret Van Cao and Lan Cao
Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter: Excerpt
FAMILY IN SIX TONES is a dual first-person memoir by the acclaimed Vietnamese-American novelist and her thoroughly American teenage daughter–exploring their complicated relationship and touching on war and past tragedy, culture clash and bullying, and growing up both as individuals and as a family. We are delighted to feature this excerpt. From FAMILY IN SIX […]
Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter
Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter is a multigenerational memoir co-written by acclaimed Vietnamese-American novelist, lawyer and professor Lan Cao and her daughter Harlan Margaret Van Cao. After more than forty years in the United States, Lan still feels tentative about her place in her adoptive country, one which she came […]
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