My Summer Reading Guide is live! It highlights 45 fabulous books that I have read and loved that will make great reads for this summer. The guide is 12 pages long, details why I am recommending each book, who that book will appeal to and more. And you can print it to take with you to the book store or library! Click on this link to purchase it.

Nguyen Phan Que Mai - THE MOUNTAINS SING

Nguyen Phan Que Mai - THE MOUNTAINS SING

Episode 2 - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai was born in Việt Nam in 1973, and grew up witnessing the war’s devastation of her country. She worked as a street seller and rice farmer before winning a scholarship to attend university in Australia. She is the author of ...

Episode 2 - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai was born in Việt Nam in 1973, and grew up witnessing the war’s devastation of her country. She worked as a street seller and rice farmer before winning a scholarship to attend university in Australia. She is the author of eight books of poetry, short fiction and non-fiction in Vietnamese. Her writing has been translated and published in more than ten countries and has received many honors, including the Hà Nội Writers Association’s Poetry of the Year 2010 Award. Quế Mai has an MA in Creative Writing and is currently a PhD candidate at Lancaster University. She divides her time between Indonesia and Việt Nam.

THE MOUNTAINS SING can be purchased at Murder by the Book.

Quế Mai's 3 recommended reads are:

1.  AFTERLIFE by Julia Alvarez

2.  SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE by Ijeoma Oluo

3.  THE LINE THAT HELD US by David Joy