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A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter
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Jump Start Your Joy®The Top Five Most Memorable Conversations of Season 6 (The Season 6 Finale)Season 6 has been all about finding joy in the messy middle. In the season finale, I'm looking back and the 5 most memorable conversations I've had with guests over the last year. For each one, I'm sharing a bit about what stood out about our conversation, and, playing a bit of the episode so you can hear them explain things in their own words. Dr. Jeff Speiss is the author of "Dying with Ease," and he joined me early on in the season. I love that he shared about what he's learned from working with people who are d...2021-07-0837 min
CapRadio ReadsFamily in Six Tones – Lan Cao & Harlan Margaret Van Cao
PTSD. Shell shock. Society has terms to recognize wartime trauma in soldiers and the same terms apply to the long-term effects felt by civilians who are caught in battle.
Author Lan Cao was one of those people. She was a child in Vietnam during the war, and she has vivid memories of what she witnessed during those years, including the Tet Offensive in 1968.
Cao fled to the U.S. in her early teens, but the trauma did not dissipate. It continued under the surface during her education and her successful career as an attorney and a...2021-03-2300 min
Jump Start Your Joy®Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter with Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van CaoIn this interview, I’m joined by Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao, who are the mother and daughter team who have written the beautiful duet memoir, “Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter.” Lan Cao immigrated to the United States in 1975, after the end of the Vietnam War. She raised her daughter, Harlan, in the US. In their beautiful memoir, they both share about their journey in growing up. In this interview, we talk about: Lan and Harlan’s experiences growing up The importance of the role of both of their fathers...2020-12-0353 min
Book DreamsEp. 25 - It Takes Two to Make a Thing Go Write, with Lan Cao, Harlan Margaret Van Cao, Mikki Daughtry, and Rachael LippincottAfter 25 episodes together, Eve and Julie are wondering: What’s it like to collaborate on writing a book? What makes a writing team successful? And when is it better to work alone? In this week’s episode, they get a between-the-lines look at two very different writing teams--Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao, the mother-daughter collaborators behind the collective memoir Family in Six Tones; and Mikki Daughtry and Rachael Lippincott, the #1 New York Times bestselling team behind Five Feet Apart and the newly released All This Time.Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or emai...2020-10-0735 min
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Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceFamily in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter by Lan Cao, Harlan Margaret Van CaoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/422845 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter Author: Lan Cao, Harlan Margaret Van Cao Narrator: Elyse Dinh, Vyvy Nguyen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: 'A brilliant duet and a moving exploration of the American immigrant experience.'--Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being A dual first-person memoir by the acclaimed Vietnamese-American novelist and her thoroughly American teenage daughter In 1975, thirteen-year-old Lan Cao boarded an airplane in Saigon and got off in a world...2020-09-1510 min
Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceFamily in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter by Lan Cao, Harlan Margaret Van CaoPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/422845to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter
Author: Lan Cao, Harlan Margaret Van Cao
Narrator: Elyse Dinh, Vyvy Nguyen
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Release date: September 15, 2020
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
'A brilliant duet and a moving exploration of the American immigrant experience.'--Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being A dual first-person memoir by the acclaimed Vietnamese-American novelist and her thoroughly American teenage daughter In 1975, thirteen-year-old Lan Cao boarded an airplane in Saigon and got off in a world where...2020-09-1511h 35
Access Top-Rated Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsFamily in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter by Harlan Margaret Van Cao, Lan CaoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/422845 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter Author: Harlan Margaret Van Cao, Lan Cao Narrator: Elyse Dinh, Vyvy Nguyen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'A brilliant duet and a moving exploration of the American immigrant experience.'--Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being A dual first-person memoir by the acclaimed Vietnamese-American novelist and her thoroughly American teenage daughter In 1975, thirteen-year-old Lan Cao boarded an airplane in Saigon and got off in a world where...2020-09-1510 minAccess Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsFamily in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter by Harlan Margaret Van Cao, Lan CaoPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/422845to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter
Author: Harlan Margaret Van Cao, Lan Cao
Narrator: Elyse Dinh, Vyvy Nguyen
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Release date: September 15, 2020
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
'A brilliant duet and a moving exploration of the American immigrant experience.'--Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being A dual first-person memoir by the acclaimed Vietnamese-American novelist and her thoroughly American teenage daughter In 1975, thirteen-year-old Lan Cao boarded an airplane in Saigon and got off in a world where she...2020-09-1511h 35
Explore the Latest Full Audiobooks in History, MilitaryFamily in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter by Harlan Margaret Van Cao, Lan CaoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/422845 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter Author: Harlan Margaret Van Cao, Lan Cao Narrator: Elyse Dinh, Vyvy Nguyen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: 'A brilliant duet and a moving exploration of the American immigrant experience.'--Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being A dual first-person memoir by the acclaimed Vietnamese-American novelist and her thoroughly American teenage daughter In 1975, thirteen-year-old Lan Cao boarded an airplane in Saigon and got off in a world where...2020-09-1510 minExplore the Latest Full Audiobooks in History, MilitaryFamily in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter by Harlan Margaret Van Cao, Lan CaoPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/422845to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter
Author: Harlan Margaret Van Cao, Lan Cao
Narrator: Elyse Dinh, Vyvy Nguyen
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Release date: September 15, 2020
Genres: Military
Publisher's Summary:
'A brilliant duet and a moving exploration of the American immigrant experience.'--Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being A dual first-person memoir by the acclaimed Vietnamese-American novelist and her thoroughly American teenage daughter In 1975, thirteen-year-old Lan Cao boarded an airplane in Saigon and got off in a world where she...2020-09-1511h 35
Reflecting HistoryThe Refugee Experience and Finding Equilibrium with Lan Cao and Harlan Van CaoIn this episode, I had a chance to sit down with Lan Cao and Harlan Van Cao. We discussed a number of topics, including: Lan's experience and life as a refugee of the Vietnam War and how that experience reverberates in Harlan's life, immigration and assimilation, discrimination, identity and the importance of finding equilibrium and balance in life, memory, letting go vs. remembering, the bystander effect as it relates to relationships and conversations, social media and it's drawbacks, modern day high school culture and experience, and the concept of the American Dream. I really enjoyed this one, hope you do t...2020-09-081h 04
Ink in Your VeinsEp. 196: Lan and Harlan Margaret Van Cao on Co-Writing their Mother-Daughter MemoirLan Cao is the author of Monkey Bridge and The Lotus and the Storm, and most recently of the scholarly work Culture in Law and Development: Nurturing Positive Change. She is a professor of law at the Chapman University School of Law, and an internationally recognized expert specializing in international business and trade, international law, and development. She has taught at Brooklyn Law School, Duke University School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, and William & Mary Law School.Harlan Margaret Van Cao is a recent high school graduate. She was born in Williamsburg, Virginia and moved to Sout...2020-08-2151 min