It wasn’t that long ago that massive wildfires scorched parts of California, forcing the evacuations of tens of thousands of people in the Bay Area. Those lifechanging events of 2020 inspired a new children’s book, “Simone,” about a Vietnamese American girl whose life is transformed by wildfire when she is forced to flee her home with her mother. For more, KRON4 News’ Stephanie Lin spoke with the author, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Minnie Phan, the illustrator of “Simone”
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