Three Rooms Press has published quite a few recent titles that center on AAPI heritage– and May is AAPI Heritage Month! To celebrate our commitment to diversity, we are offering a 20% discount on all 3RP books about AAPI topics, plus all books written by  AAPI writers, with the code AAPI Month 2025. Click here to see the complete list or check out details below to pick out your favorite.

MY VIETNAM, YOUR VIETNAM: A Father Flees. A Daughter Returns. A Dual Memoir. By Christina Vo and Nghia M. Vo

Ms. Magazine called MY VIETNAM, YOUR VIETNAM one of its top-10 most anticipated Feminist memoirs of the year. And there’s good reason for this. Ostensibly, this dual memoir tells the story of Nghia M. Vo, who fled Vietnam in 1975 when the war ended. His daughter and co-author, Christina Vo, grew up in the US, for the most part in smaller midwestern cities where she was often the only Asian-American at her school. As a young adult in search of heritage, and against her father’s wishes, Christina traveled alone to Vietnam where she worked a variety of jobs and lived in both the northern city of Hanoi and the former South Vietnam city of Saigon. Her courageous journey led her to commit herself to helping people of the diaspora and those in Vietnam on the path to reconciliation and healing from intergenerational trauma from the war, even after 50 years. Also available in Vietnamese, MY VIETNAM, YOUR VIETNAM is a must-read for its honest and brave stories of both father and daughter. More details here. Also available in the Vietnamese translation: VIỆT NAM CỦA CON, VIỆT NAM CỦA CHA (translated by Kalynh Ngo).

THE COLORS OF APRIL: Fiction on the Vietnam War’s Legacy 50 Years Later

Fifty years after the Vietnam War ended, literary voices of the Vietnamese American diaspora and authors currently living in postwar Vietnam speak to the experience of those who left and those who stayed in THE COLORS OF APRIL, an anthology of new short fiction edited by Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran.

For much of the twentieth century, Vietnam played an outsized role on the global stage, charting the destinies of superpowers and reshaping the world’s politics. Now fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War comes The Colors of April, an anthology of fiction that finally speaks to the Vietnamese experience: voices of both those who left and those who stayed, what was gained and lost in the half century since, and for the generations that followed—what it means to be Vietnamese. More than two dozen distinct literary voices are featured in this collection, including those of Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Lam, Barbara Tran, and Vi Khi Nao, among others. The stories are as diverse in style, tone, and subject matter as the ancestral lands of the Vietnamese people. From the rubble of the Ancient Citadel in Quảng Trị to the makeshift orphanages outside Sài Gòn, from Palo Alto to a tony Lincoln Park apartment in Chicago, the narratives straddle continents and generations, the political as well as the personal. But what they share is much greater than their differences. They speak to a common language, to a culture steeped in history and myth and storytelling that vividly captures the enduring spirit of the Vietnamese people. More details here.

Other book featured in our AAPI Month special include:

• JAPANTHEM: Counter-Cultural Experiences, Cross-Cultural Remixes by Jillian Marshall
• LAST BOAT TO YOKOHAMA: The Life and Legacy of Beate Sirota Gordon by Nassrine Azimi and Michel Wasserman
• THE DOOR TO INFERNA: An Elklorian Novel by Rishab Borah

In addition, a very special limited edition box set of both the English and Vietnamese versions of MY VIETNAM, YOUR VIETNAM, is available here. The set is recommended to promote intergenerational and international discussion on the path the healing and reconciliation from the ongoing trauma of the Vietnam War. It includes:

• One copy of MY VIETNAM, YOUR VIETNAM
• One copy of VIỆT NAM CỦA CON, VIỆT NAM CỦA CHA
• Handwritten notes in English and Vietnamese by author Christina Vo and translator Kalynh Ngô
• Discussion questions in English and Vietnamese
• Limited Edition of 50 

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