Linda Trinh Book Launch (Seeking Spirit)

Name: Linda Trinh Book Launch (Seeking Spirit)
Start: 2025-04-10T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-10T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 1120 Grant Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Manitoba R3M 2A6

Schedule

Thu Apr 10 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1120 Grant Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Manitoba R3M 2A6 | Winnipeg, MB

Join Linda Trinh for the launch of Seeking Spirit: A Vietnamese (Non)Buddhist Memoir (Guernica Editions). Featuring a conversation hosted by Rowan McCandless followed by a book signing.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781771839549/linda-trinh/seeking-spirit
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/4gNgPjTH5Mc
Linda Trinh says she had everything she thought an immigrant woman should want: motherhood, career, and security. Yet she felt empty. Growing up in Winnipeg, Linda helped her mom make offerings to their ancestors and cleaned her late dad’s altar. These were her mother’s beliefs, but what were her own? In this collection of essays, Linda plays with form and structure to show the interconnection of life events, trauma, and spiritual practice, to move from being a passive believer to an active seeker.
Linda Trinh is an award-winning Vietnamese Canadian author of fiction and non fiction for children and adults. She is the author of The Nguyen Kids series. Her work has appeared in various anthologies and literary magazines, and has been nominated for numerous awards. The Secret of the Jade Bangle co-won the Manitoba Book Award for best first book. Linda immigrated to Canada with her family from Vietnam when she was three years old. She and her older sister were raised by a single mother, surrounded by extended family in the West End of Winnipeg, after her father passed away when she was seven. Growing up, she did not see herself represented in books and that absence influences her exploration of identity, cultural background, and spirituality. She lives with her husband and two kids in Winnipeg, on ancestral lands, Treaty 1 territory.