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SUMMARY:Thao Votang on "Linh Ly Is Doing Just Fine"
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DESCRIPTION:The Prince George’s County Office of Human Rights and t
 he Prince George’s County Memorial Library System welcome Thao Vota
 ng in conversation about her brand new novel\, "Linh Ly Is Doing Just Fine
 .".\nhttps://pgcmls.libnet.info/event/10563522
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>When 27-year-old Linh Ly&rsquo\;s recently
 -divorced mother begins dating a coworker\, Linh is determined to make sur
 e he is worthy of her mother. She&rsquo\;s seen the kind of men her mother
  ends up with&mdash\;she grew up watching her unreliable and volatile alco
 holic father as her mother worked two jobs to make ends meet. Linh is cert
 ain that her mother can&rsquo\;t do this on her own\, but what begins as g
 enuine worry quickly turns obsessive.</p>\n<p>Following her mother and spy
 ing on her dates becomes part of Linh&rsquo\;s routine\, especially after 
 a university shooting at Linh&rsquo\;s work that leaves her feeling adrift
 &mdash\;at least her mom&rsquo\;s dating life gives her something to focus
  on. Linh doesn&rsquo\;t exactly have a life of her own (dating or otherwi
 se) and figures the best course of action is action&mdash\;not how she han
 dled the shooting: curl up in a ball and wait it out.</p>\n<p>Linh is slow
 ly forced to reconcile the image of her mother from her childhood with the
  woman she&rsquo\;s getting to know as an adult. Growing up Vietnamese in 
 the middle of Texas with a broken household taught Linh a certain guarded 
 way of living&mdash\;one she never quite left behind.</p>\n<p>Moving\, ins
 ightful\, and caustically funny all at once\,&nbsp\;"Linh Ly Is Doing Just
  Fine\," depicts a quarter-life crisis in deeply relatable prose.</p>\n<p>
 </p>\n<p><img src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/pgcml
 s/Linh_Ly_final_cover.jpg" width="300" height="450" alt="" style="display:
  block\; margin-left: auto\; margin-right: auto\;" /></p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\
 n<p>About the author: <strong>Thao Votang</strong>&nbsp\;has been publishe
 d in&nbsp\;Salon\, Hyperallergic\, Southwest Contemporary\, Milk Candy Rev
 iew\,&nbsp\;and&nbsp\;Lucky Jefferson.&nbsp\;When she&rsquo\;s not looking
  at art\, she can be found reading one of the many books she has put in he
 r bag or hidden under that couch cushion. Her fiction is informed by her e
 xperience as part of the Vietnamese diaspora deep in the lone star state\,
  her interest in how we love our mothers\, and the climate catastrophe.</p
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