Authors Monique Truong and Andrew Lam are scheduled to visit Orange County's Vietnamese American Arts N Letters Association (VAALA) on Tuesday, September 21 to celebrate the publishing of their new books.
Truong, a Saigon native who lives in New York City, will discuss Bitter in the Mouth, her novel about a North Carolina Asian woman who discovers “the secret of her origins.”
Her first novel, The Book of Salt, was a New York Times “notable” book.
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San Francisco resident Lam will discuss East Eats West, his part
memoir, part cultural anthropology that delves into everything from cuisine
to martial arts to sex and self-esteem. Lam's prior book, Perfume
Dreams, was an award-winning collection of his essays.
The event–which will take place at the VAALA Cultural Center at 1600 N. Broadway, #101, in Santa Ana–is free and open to the public.
For more information, e-mail the organization at va*****@***oo.com or call (714) 893-6145.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.
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