Linda Trinh Book Launch
Thursday Apr 10 2025 7:00 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park in the Atrium | Streaming on YouTube
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.
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream.
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.
Host Rowan McCandless is a Governor General's Award finalist in nonfiction. Her book, Persephone's Children: A Life in Fragments, is also a co-winner of the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for best first book. A National Magazine Gold Award winner and Journey Prize Stories alumna, Rowan is also the nonfiction editor with The Fiddlehead.
See:
Seeking Spirit
- Linda Trinh 
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In her memoir Seeking Spirit: A Vietnamese (Non)Buddhist Memoir, 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 was Buddhism Linda's belief? In her late-twenties, Linda sought answers in Egypt and China and prayed during corporate downsizing, seeking meaning in contemporary life. Via a collection of essays, she 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.
