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Join us April 4 at 7pm for the launch of The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse by Vinh Nguyen (HarperCollins Canada) at Society Clubhouse. This will be a special event with a celebrated author panel sharing readings and a moderated discussion, featuring Souvankham Thammavongsa, Kyo Maclear, Pacinthe Mattar and Asha Jeffers. Books will be for sale courtesy of Another Story Bookshop.

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Toronto Lit Up is a multi-year initiative, started in 2016 by the Toronto International Festival of Authors and the Toronto Arts Council, to spotlight Toronto writers and empower local artists with career-building opportunities. Between April 2016 and March 2025, Toronto Lit Up has presented over 200 events featuring over 250 Toronto authors and illustrators. Toronto Lit Up book launches take place throughout the year at venues across the city. They are open to the public and free to attend. Click here for more information.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse

An inventive memoir about one family’s escape from Vietnam and the father’s mysterious disappearance along the way. This book is an intricate exploration of a searching mind, shedding light on the psyche of a grieving son, as he chases certainty and seeks elusive resolution. With the Fall of Saigon on April ... Read more

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Vinh Nguyen

Vinh Nguyen is a writer and educator whose work has appeared in Brick, Literary Hub, The Malahat Review, PRISM international, Grain, Queen’s Quarterly, The Criterion Collection’s Current, and MUBI’s Notebook. He is a nonfiction editor at The New Quarterly, where he curates an ongoing series on refugee, migrant, and diasporic writing.

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