← Monique TruongThe Sweetest Fruitsby Monique TruongNovel about letters between Chekhov and a mysterious woman across continentsFind on Amazon↗About the authorMonique TruongVietnamese-American novelist whose debut The Book of Salt imagines the life of Gertrude Stein's Vietnamese cook. Her fiction explores exile, sexuality, and food with lyrical intelligence. She is an important voice in Vietnamese-American literature.More by Monique TruongThe Book of SaltNovel told from perspective of Proust's cook featuring queer Vietnamese immigrant identity→Bitter in the MouthNovel exploring synesthesia and language through Vietnamese American family history→