Location: United States
Member Since:
Aug. 30, 2016
Mai Donohue
Biography
Mai Donohue is a writer, beloved home cook, and retired educator of special needs students. After leaving Vietnam in 1970 she and her husband Brian settled in Barrington, Rhode Island. They have seven children and thirteen grandchildren. Mai holds a B.A. from the University of Rhode Island, an accomplishment that was the culmination of more than twelve years of study. Mai is known in her community for supporting various charitable causes with her delicious Vietnamese cooking. A PBS short documentary about Mai’s life was nominated for a New England Emmy award in 2006. More information about her can be found at www.MaiGoodness.com.
Where to find Mai Donohue online
Website: http://www.maigoodness.com
Where to buy in print
Books
Crossing the Bamboo Bridge: Memoirs of a Bad Luck Girl
by Mai Donohue
Price:
$9.99 USD.
Words: 102,170.
Language:
American English.
Published: August 30, 2016
by
Stillwater River Publications.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Cultural heritage
This vivid, compulsively readable memoir of courage, grief and redemption illuminates the life of Mai, a young girl from Vietnam’s rice fields, who risks everything to escape poverty, abuse and war.