Book Chat with Linda Trinh

To attend, please email MWGEvents2022@gmail.com for the Zoom information.

Please join us for our virtual Book Chat with award-winner Linda Trinh. She will read from her work and answer audience questions afterwards.

About our author:
Linda is a Vietnamese Canadian author of seven books who writes fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. She explores identity, cultural background, and spirituality. Her award-winning early chapter book series, The Nguyen Kids, is published by Annick Press. Her newest contemporary fantasy series, Legendary Allies, is also published by Annick Press. Her debut work for adults, Seeking Spirit: A Vietnamese (Non)Buddhist Memoir is published by Guernica Editions and won the 2026 Manitoba Book Award – Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award For Non-Fiction. She lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba with her family.

About her latest book:
In her memoir Seeking Spirit: A Vietnamese (Non)Buddhist Memoir, Linda Trinh says she had everything she thought an immigrant woman should want: motherhood, career, and security. Yet she felt empty. Growing up in Winnipeg, Linda helped her mom make offerings to their ancestors and cleaned her late dad’s altar. These were her mother’s beliefs, but what were her beliefs? Via a collection of essays, Linda plays with form and structure to show the interconnection of life events, trauma, and spiritual practice, to move from being a passive believer to an active seeker.