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May 23, 2023 15 mins
In present-day New Orleans, three sisters live in a space between their refugee parents’ silence and their Vietnamese diaspora. Their only clue into their roots is their mother’s obsession with divining her daughters' fates through their Vietnamese zodiac signs. Tune in for a discussion with E. M. Tran on her new #novel Daughters of the New Year.

#MomentsWithMarianne with host Marianne Pestana airs every Tuesday at 3PM PST / 6PM EST and every Friday at 10AM PST/ 1PM EST in the Southern California area on KMET1490AM & 98.1 FM, ABC Talk News Radio affiliate! Not in the area? Click here to listen! https://tunein.com/radio/KMET-1490-s33999/

E.M. Tran is a Vietnamese American author with an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Ohio University. Her fiction has been published in Joyland, Little Fiction, Territory, Complete Sentence, and her nonfiction has been published in Harvard Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, New Ohio Review, and Thrillist. Tran’s work has received the Glenna Luschei Award, the Prairie Schooner Nonfiction Award, and was listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2018. https://www.elizabethmtran.com

For more show information visit: www.MariannePestana.com

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