![]() ![]() ![]() In another scene, a family celebrates a toddler’s one-year birthday by letting her choose from different objects, each representing a career or a path. I made my leading character, Linh, a peeler too. For example, whenever my family and I made chả giò (egg rolls) or mì hoành thánh (wonton soup), I was the designated “peeler,” delicately separating thawed wrappers. My Vietnamese family has always been a central part of my life.Īny scenes that involved family were inspired by my own past. The hashtag #ownvoices is about writing yourself into existence after years of being silenced, underrepresented, or grossly misrepresented in books, so I wrote A Phở Love Story to describe my Vietnamese American experience, which I acknowledge is just a sliver of the vast Vietnamese American history. I never saw signature items from my household: a rice cooker, straw brooms, Paris by Night DVDs. As a kid I didn’t see or read about any characters who called their parents Ba and Mẹ instead of Dad and Mom. ![]()
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