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I am planning a national tour so that I can share BRONZE DRUM with audiences all throughout the United States. If you have a local library, bookstore, or university that is interested in hosting me for a reading, send me a message via the "contact" option on my website. Otherwise, come catch me at one of the dozens of readings already scheduled, which are listed here: https://phongvnguyen.com/book Read more of this blog post »

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Published on July 12, 2022 07:16 • Tags: bronze-drum, fiction, literary-reading, phong-nguyen

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Average rating: 3.36 · 2,564 ratings · 491 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bronze Drum 3.36 avg rating — 2,263 ratings — published 2022 — 10 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
	Roundabout 3.04 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 2024	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
	Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History 3.95 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2014 — 3 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
	The Adventures of Joe Harper 4.17 avg rating — 36 ratings — 2 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
	Memory Sickness 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011 — 2 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
	Nancy Hale: On the Life and Work of a Lost American Master by Dan Chaon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Norah H. Lind (Editor), Phong Nguyen (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 2 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
	Phong Nguyen ‎– Traditional Music of Vietnam 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“You must seize joy, for without joy you will become indifferent to others, shirking your duties because nothing will seem to matter,”
― Phong Nguyen, Bronze Drum: A Novel of Sisters and War

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