The Tale of Mother Vietnam

What if history were not told by victors or textbooks—but by a mother?

In The Tale of Mother Vietnam, Jim Huynh offers a deeply personal and poetic account of Vietnam’s journey across four thousand years of legend, war, division, and renewal.

Told through the symbolic voice of Mother Vietnam, this bilingual English–Vietnamese work is not a political argument, but a reflection of memory—of those who left, those who stayed, and those who were never given a choice.

From ancient heroines to modern exile, from rivers that remember to children scattered across oceans, this book traces not only the history of a nation, but the emotional truths carried within its people.

This is not the only account of Vietnam’s past— but it is one voice among many.

And like all voices that matter, it asks to be heard.