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Mai's Áo Dài
2025
First Published
4.23
Average Rating
40
Number of Pages

Celebrity fashion designer Thai Nguyen from Netflix’s Say I Do joins forces with bestselling creators Monique Truong and Dung Ho in this irresistibly charming picture book about embracing your heritage and the traditions that tie generations together—centered around the Vietnamese New Year, Têt. It’s nearly Têt, and Mai can’t wait to celebrate Lunar New Year with family at her beloved grandmother’s home. With the perfect a poofy, sparkly Cinderella dress that makes Mai look like the movie star she dreams of being! But when Mai’s father tells her she must wear áo dài, the traditional Vietnamese outfit, to her bà nôi’s party, Mai is disappointed. Stars don’t wear áo dái, she thinks. Then Ba tells her the story of a true star, her very own Bà Nôi’s, who sewed beautiful, highly sought after áo dài in Vietnam, then brought her magic with her when she immigrated to the United States. So maybe stars wear áo dài after all! But how can Bà Nôi know what Mai’s wearing when she’s lost her eyesight? Ba tells her every áo dài is sewn with love, and you don’t have to see love to know it’s there.

Avg Rating
4.23
Number of Ratings
70
5 STARS
39%
4 STARS
47%
3 STARS
13%
2 STARS
1%
1 STARS
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Authors

Monique Truong
Monique Truong
Author · 5 books
MONIQUE TRUONG, born in Saigon, came to the U.S. as a refugee. She currently lives in New York City. Her first novel, The Book of Salt, was a New York Times Notable Book and a national bestseller. It won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Bard Fiction Prize, the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, and the 7th Annual Asian American Literary Award. Her second novel, Bitter in the Mouth, received the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Rosenthal Family Foundation Award and named a 25 Best Fiction Books by Barnes & Noble and a 10 Best Fiction Books by Hudson Booksellers. She is the recipient of the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship, Princeton University’s Hodder Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship.
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