Online Daytime Book Discussion-The Mountains Sing

This May, our book discussion group we will be reading Nguyen Phan Que Mai’s novel The Mountains Sing. It is available to download for free in both ebook and audiobook formats from the hoopla Book Club Hub. Click the link for more information: https://theclub.hoopladigital.com/

The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Nội, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hồ Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that tore not just her beloved country, but her family apart.

Vivid, gripping, and steeped in the language and traditions of Việt Nam, The Mountains Sing brings to life the human costs of this conflict from the point of view of the Vietnamese people themselves, while showing us the true power of kindness and hope.

This program will be presented as a Zoom meeting. The URL for the "meeting" will be emailed to all registrants before the program.

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