NINA VIDA
BIO
Nina Vida's writing career began when her children went off to college and she enrolled in the University Without Walls program at California State University Dominguez Hills to pursue a long-deferred degree in English. One of the requirements of the degree was a semester of creative writing. Nina, who had never written fiction before, decided to write a story about her 38-year-old sister's open-heart surgery. The professor said it brought her to tears. Nina's husband had been a Navy journalist in the Korean War, and when he read the story he said he thought Nina had the makings of a writer and should try her hand at a novel. That was in 1980. Since then Nina has had seven novels published. The seventh novel, The Texicans, was published by Soho Press.
She is a native born Californian, and lives in Huntington Beach, California.
WORK IN PROGRESS
NINA VIDA has just completed her eighth novel, THE QUEEN OF ANNAM'S DAUGHTER.
Little Saigon, California, 1993. Anh Truong, a fast-talking Vietnamese immigrant who charms, cajoles and hustles her precarious way through life in a country she is determined by whatever means to make her own, discovers that her past in Vietnam isn’t past at all when her four-year-old daughter is kidnapped and Anh is forced to examine what it really means to be an American as she searches for her daughter in a community filled with racism, vicious gangs and deadly scams.
AVAILABLE FOR SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
NINA VIDA can be contacted directly or through her agent. She is available to speak to writers' clubs, conferences and book clubs. Go to "Contacts".
NINA VIDA AT WORK
NINA VIDA's emphasis in her fiction is in the depiction of ordinary people who when placed in extraordinary situations reveal character that delights as well as dismays, but which always surprises. Most of her books have involved research and travel and in some cases are based on actual events, but history takes a back seat to story telling and vibrant characterization, which are the hallmarks of her fiction.
CHILDREN OF GUERRERO - EBOOK NOW AVAILABLE on Kindle, nook, ibook and other ebook dealers.
Mexico is in the news. But what do we know about this country on our border and its explosive history?
CHILDREN OF GUERRERO fills in the blanks, weaves fiction and fact, exposes exploitation by outsiders and revolution by its citizens. From 1511 when a Spanish ship is wrecked on the coast of Yucatan to Emperor Maximilian's attempt to sit on the Mexican throne to the upheaval of the student rebellion in Mexico City a hundred years later, the novel exposes Mexico's witches' brew of intgrigue and corruption as well as the beauty of the land and the bravery of its citizens.
CHILDREN OF GUERRERO tells a tale of love and deception that reverberates to this day.
originally published by Bantam Doubleday Dell under the name of Maximilian's Garden
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