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Seeking Spirit: A Vietnamese (Non)Buddhist Memoir

Release Date April 1, 2025

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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.