​AUDREY CHIN 

Dining in the dark and another door of perception opened

As the Heart Bones Break: So grateful this reviewer got it!

Every 16th day of the Lunar New Year, Heart Guy and I travel to his family home in the Mekong Delta to commemorate his mother’s death and...

Here’s National Critics Choice’s video of the book chat about As the Heart Bones Break at Select Books https://oddznns.wordpress.com/2013...

I thought I was a global person but it turns out I’m not … My novel As the Heart Bones Break is making its debut globally at Singapore...

To find out more about what we ate in Yunnan, including my encounter with a 40 year old mother of all hams, read the article here: A myth...

Nguyen Trong Hien is the author of Village Teacher, a novel which offers a refreshing look at a Vietnam rarely featured in English...

I am a sucker for romance and Dalat is a romantic, if kitschy, city. It’s main lake, Ho Xuan Huong, is named after Vietnam’s most famous...

Before going off to Australia, Heart Guy and I were in Vietnam. On an afternoon, we had lunch with some of the Mekong Delta kids we...

What’s in a title? A title can make or break a book. Imagine if The Great Gatsby was actually published under it’s original title...

You can love a place before you see it.  A place you continue to hold in your heart even after you know it, faults and all. That’s the...

This week Pope Benedict 16th steps down, the first papal resignation in nearly 600 years. At the University of Tubingen in Germany, the...

It’s been a long time since I’ve been so excited about a trip. The last time I experienced this degree of anticipation was 20 years ago,...

Monique Truong – An award winning American writer and you’re discovering something new about how an American woman of Vietnamese descent...

We don’t eat turkey … PHoto Credit: http://www.chubbyhubby.net Not because we’re vegetarians unfortunately. Unfortunately just because I...

It’s a boat person’s festival that’s why… When we lived in the US, it was a public holiday, an opportunity for far flung too busy friends...

Photo Credit: Talking Pieces http://www.circle-space.org I’ve been waiting and waiting for that invitation. But, it hasn’t come. Yet. I...

Photocredit: dogsintouch.com My father has decided to say Grace after 50 years of not doing so.  The reason he’s started again is a video...

It’s the end of the old year. A time to throw away old grudges and forgotten grievances, a time to make room for what will come in the...

I had a nightmare about pacmen shooting at me; they were shouting – Resistance is futile! resistance is futile.   Clearly the product of...