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AUDREY CHIN
Award winning Asian writer and reader of the Libra Mundi
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Audrey Chin
- Dec 9, 2014
- 2 min
So Grateful – This Reviewer Really Got It!
As the Heart Bones Break: So grateful this reviewer got it!
Audrey Chin
- Feb 9, 2014
- 5 min
6 Mekong Dishers I'll Miss
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...
Audrey Chin
- Dec 17, 2013
- 1 min
Talking about Heart Bones on National Critics Choice
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...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 21, 2013
- 4 min
Does your writing transcend culture?
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...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 17, 2013
- 5 min
Yunnan Ham from a Grandmother Room
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...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 13, 2013
- 6 min
Writers I read: Writing in English, essentially Vietnamese
Nguyen Trong Hien is the author of Village Teacher, a novel which offers a refreshing look at a Vietnam rarely featured in English...
Audrey Chin
- Aug 17, 2013
- 4 min
Dalat – A special place in my heart
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...
Audrey Chin
- Jul 22, 2013
- 6 min
A different lunch on the Mekong River
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...
Audrey Chin
- May 25, 2013
- 2 min
What’s in a title? Your opinion please…
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...
Audrey Chin
- Mar 4, 2013
- 3 min
A place in my heart – The Mekong southland
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...
Audrey Chin
- Mar 1, 2013
- 3 min
The Pope is gone, my mother-in-law is dead, but life goes on…
This week Pope Benedict 16th steps down, the first papal resignation in nearly 600 years. At the University of Tubingen in Germany, the...
Audrey Chin
- Feb 17, 2013
- 3 min
Anticipating Myanmar –The “before” post
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,...
Audrey Chin
- Dec 13, 2012
- 5 min
Writers I Read: If You’re a Vietnamese Woman in Singapore then You Must Be…
Monique Truong – An award winning American writer and you’re discovering something new about how an American woman of Vietnamese descent...
Audrey Chin
- Nov 22, 2012
- 2 min
A Singapore Thanksgiving Menu
We don’t eat turkey … PHoto Credit: http://www.chubbyhubby.net Not because we’re vegetarians unfortunately. Unfortunately just because I...
Audrey Chin
- Nov 19, 2012
- 2 min
A Singapore Thanksgiving – The Monday before
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...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 15, 2012
- 4 min
5 Reasons why I left America OR What matters most to me about Singapore
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...
Audrey Chin
- Jan 1, 2012
- 2 min
If Dogs Can Say Grace…
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...
Audrey Chin
- Dec 31, 2011
- 1 min
Reconciliation
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...
Audrey Chin
- Nov 12, 2011
- 1 min
Resistance
I had a nightmare about pacmen shooting at me; they were shouting – Resistance is futile! resistance is futile. Clearly the product of...
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