The Saving Grace of Spring Rolls: Vietnamese Heritage
As the daughter of a U.S. soldier and a Vietnamese woman who met and married during the Vietnam War, Kim has made Vietnamese heritage and immigration a frequent focus of her writing.
Kim's writing about Vietnamese heritage ranges from the historical to the deeply personal, including essays about her relationship with her mother and journalistic accounts of Vietnamese immigration and heritage, particularly in and around Arlington, Virginia--the first home away from home for the Vietnamese community in the nation's capital. Kim has presented or spoken about this topic to such organizations as WETA-DC (PBS), DCist, the Arlington Historical Society, Leadership Arlington, and American University. She has also appeared in public television programs and videos about Vietnamese heritage.
In Spring 2019, Kim was a Virginia Humanities fellow at the Library of Virginia in Richmond, where she researched, wrote, and spoke on this topic in support of a book project, The Saving Grace of Spring Rolls: A Story of Food, Place, and Family. This blog post details some of Kim's research at the library during the fellowship.
Below is a selection of Kim's previous writings and appearances on this topic. Check out The Spring Roll Blog for more writing.
Kim's writing about Vietnamese heritage ranges from the historical to the deeply personal, including essays about her relationship with her mother and journalistic accounts of Vietnamese immigration and heritage, particularly in and around Arlington, Virginia--the first home away from home for the Vietnamese community in the nation's capital. Kim has presented or spoken about this topic to such organizations as WETA-DC (PBS), DCist, the Arlington Historical Society, Leadership Arlington, and American University. She has also appeared in public television programs and videos about Vietnamese heritage.
In Spring 2019, Kim was a Virginia Humanities fellow at the Library of Virginia in Richmond, where she researched, wrote, and spoke on this topic in support of a book project, The Saving Grace of Spring Rolls: A Story of Food, Place, and Family. This blog post details some of Kim's research at the library during the fellowship.
Below is a selection of Kim's previous writings and appearances on this topic. Check out The Spring Roll Blog for more writing.
Echoes of Little SaigonKim authored this fully illustrated, 28-page booklet about Arlington's former "Little Saigon," the first major settlement for Vietnamese refugees in the nation's capital after the war.
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My Mother's Kitchen...Kim examines the tensions that persist between her American upbringing and her Vietnamese mother's views in this personal essay for The Refresh Weekly. It begins, "My mother's kitchen is small and worn, like she is...."
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Perfect Harmony at
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Finding My Mother,
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Food and Family in
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When in Doubt,
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