A Woman's Escape from Communist Vietnam Is Featured in This New Release from Dorrance Publishing

A Vietnamese Congresswoman must beat overwhelming odds to secure freedom for herself and her family.

Pittsburgh, Penn. (PRWEB) November 5, 2009 -- The Sea and the Mulberry Field, by Xuan-Lan Nguyen, has been published by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc.

Xuan-Lan Nguyen graduated from La Sorbonne, the University of Paris,with a Licence-es-Lettres in English Literature. She then studied for a Ph.D. in English at UCLA. Although a native of Vietnam, Mrs. Nguyen has lived in the United States for thirty years. She has been a member of the Advisory Committee for the Families of Vietnamese Political Prisoners Association since 1980. A mother of three, she now lives happily with her husband. This is her second published book; her first is entitled Kitty Cat.

Her next book, The Legends of the Promised Land, could be summed up in the following sentence:
"The land over which I flew as I arrived, my heart throbbing with fear, homesickness and tears, ultimately fulfilled my wildest dreams in that typical manner we call the charm or the American genius."

The Sea and the Mulberry Field is a 252-page paperback with a retail price of $16.00. The ISBN is 978-4349-0301-3. It was published by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information or to request a review copy, please visit our virtual pressroom at www.dorrancepressroom.com or our online bookstore at www.dorrancebookstore.com.

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