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Time that refuses to be translated into a tangible thing, time without a number or an ordinal assigned to it, is often said to be lost. In a city that always looks better in a memory, time lost can make the night seem eternal and full of stars.

Monique Truong

Time that refuses to be translated into a tangible thing, time without a number or an ordinal assigned to it, is often said to be lost. In a city that always looks better in a memory, time lost can make the night seem eternal and full of stars.

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About Monique Truong

Monique T.D. Truong (born May 13, 1968, in Saigon in South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Yale University and Columbia University School of Law. She has written multiple books, and her first novel, The Book of Salt, was published by Houghton-Mifflin in 2003. It was a national bestseller, and was awarded the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize, the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award. She has also written Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, along with Barbara Tran and Luu Truong Khoi, and numerous essays and works of short fiction.