C. L. Hoang publishes “Rain Falling on Tamarind Trees”

A  new book, Rain Falling on Tamarind Trees, by EE alumnus C. L. Hoang (M.S. ’82), is set to be released by Willow Stream Publishing tomorrow.  Hoang was born and raised in Vietnam during the war and came to the US in the 1970s.  He wrote this travelogue about his experiences returning to his ancestral homeland for the first time, in 2016, after a decades-long absence.   He still makes his living as an engineer–he holds 11 patents–and says that his engineering training helped him hone his organizational skills and develop an analytical eye for details as well as a love for research.  His first book, Once upon a Mulberry Field, is a historical novel set in Vietnam during the height of the war.