Don Rickers with The Voice of Pelham wrote about NC Math Professor and writer Phuong (Amy) Hoang and her new book Three Funerals for My Father: Love, Loss and Escape from Vietnam.
In her book, Hoang, who goes by the pen name Jolie Phuong Hoang, details her family’s journey escaping from Vietnam in the 1980s, taking the reader through three separate escape attempts. Hoang’s latest release, written from the perspective of the author and her father’s ghost, follows her first book, Anchorless, which provided details about the first and third times that her family tried to flee Vietnam.
On October 23, Hoang participated in a livestreamed conversation with former CBC foreign correspondent Hilary Brown, and Judy Smith, co-founder of the Mountain Fund to Help the Boat People. The article also mentions that on Nov. 30, the Pelham Public Library will be hosting an author event via Zoom at 7 p.m., with signed copies of her book available for purchase at the library.
Read the full Oct. 21 article on The Voice of Pelham’s website here.
