Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai Collections
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Secret of Hoa Sen | 2014 | Buy |
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai Standalone Novels Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Mountains Sing | 2020 | Buy |
| Dust Child | 2023 | Buy |
Nguyen Phan Que Mai was born and raised in Vietnam and has published books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Her debut English-language novel, The Mountains Sing (2020), tells the story of the Tran family across several generations, set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. The novel won the 2020 BookBrowse Best Debut Award and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award.
Her second novel, Dust Child (2023), explores the experiences of mixed-race children born during the Vietnam War and the American veterans who fathered them. She holds a PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University and has been named by Forbes Vietnam as one of twenty inspiring women of 2021.