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Mai Nguyen

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Born

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Website

https://www.mainguyen.ca

Twitter

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Genre

Contemporary

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Mai Nguyen is a Vietnamese Canadian author whose debut novel, Sunshine Nails, was longlisted for Canada Reads and named one of the best books of 2023 by NPR and CBC. Her journalism has appeared in Wired, The Washington Post, and The Toronto Star. Raised in Halifax, she now lives in Toronto with her husband, daughter, and French bulldog. Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead is her second novel.

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Average rating: 3.54 · 6,426 ratings · 1,113 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sunshine Nails 3.52 avg rating — 6,315 ratings — published 2023 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead 4.53 avg rating — 112 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“All you had to do was want it bad enough. They could take away her salon, but they could never take away the power she wielded in the flick of her fingertip.”
― Mai Nguyen, Sunshine Nails

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“Jessica wondered what that must be like, to be such a devoted wife who sacrificed herself for her husband like it was an uncontrollable tic. What was it that made her do it time and time again? Was it love? Loyalty? Pride? Perhaps this was the secret to a lasting marriage. If so, then maybe it was a good thing she never married Brett. She had zero desire to give up so much of herself.”
― Mai Nguyen, Sunshine Nails

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“Did he really expect her to buy any of this? What bullshit, Debbie wanted to say. He fed off people’s financial problems and then threw those same problems back at them and called it work? Secondly, it always infuriated her when people said work wasn’t everything.”
― Mai Nguyen, Sunshine Nails

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