Vivian Pham (Australia)
Vivian Pham was born in Orange County, California, and emigrated to Sydney, Australia, with her family when she was very young. Pham is most passionate about issues surrounding post-colonialism, feminism, prison reform, structuralized racism, and Third World solidarity. Her father, her greatest role model, escaped Vietnam and came to the United States when he was 17.
The Coconut Children is an urgent, moving and wise debut from the young and gifted storyteller.
