Episode 97: Family In Six Tones with Lan Cao and Harlan Van Cao
In this episode, Alisha is sharing her conversation Lan Cao and Harlan Van Cao on their upcoming memoir “Family in Six Tones” which grapples with topics of how the traumas of war and becoming a refugee have long term affects and how they affect the next generation, as well as feminism, mother-daughter relationships, and questions of identity.
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Join the Book club discussion with special guests Lan Cao and Harlan Van Cao
Fiction allows you to go deeper
Memoir “Family In Six Tones” order it here
Not Lan’s First Book
Lan’s writing has been heart based.
A story of resilience
Did not write from a perspective of trying to respond to each other
Neither of their ideas to write the memoir. The publishing House asked them to do the memoir after the story core interview https://storycorps.org/stories/a-mother-on-surviving-the-tet-offensive-and-escaping-from-vietnam/
Mother’s experience has affected the daughter and they were able to talk about it through the memoir.
Subtle parts of feminism
Never had to worry because she did it for me
Writing a memoir with your mother
When you feel like an insider or outsider within your own group
Questioning assimilation
Caught in a maelstrom of identity
Hard to pick up the 6 tones of Vietnamese
The most traumatic thing was losing my dad
The personal is political: Fat is a feminist issue
The relationship that refugees have to this country.