Monique Truong
Monique Truong is the author of the novels The Sweetest Fruits , The Book of Salt , and Bitter in the Mouth , and her work has been published in fifteen countries. Her awards and honors include the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the Asian American Literary Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, and the 2021 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, given for a body of work that offers incisive, original...See more
Monique Truong is the author of the novels The Sweetest Fruits , The Book of Salt , and Bitter in the Mouth , and her work has been published in fifteen countries. Her awards and honors include the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the Asian American Literary Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, and the 2021 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, given for a body of work that offers incisive, original commentary on American themes, experiments with form, and encompasses a range of human experiences. See less
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Monique Truong book reviews
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The Book of Salt
Great idea, but then I lost interest
I found the idea of the book intriguing (story of an Asian chef's hard life till he gets hired in Paris by Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein) but did not enjoy the way it unfolded. Ultimately, I got ... Read More
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The Book of Salt
sad and moving
I couldn?t care less about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, but I cared very much about their Vietnamese cook, Binh, who narrates this fictional story. While the author?s time-shifting is a little ... Read More