05/24/2026
BookBase would like to give a special thank you to Van Hoang and the Huntington Beach Public Library! 📖 At BookBase we believe Reading Brings People Together, so we were honored to cover the first Surf City Author Fest 🌊😄
Van Hoang is the author of Girl Giant and the Monkey King, Girl Giant and the Jade War, and Auntie Q’s Golden Claws Nail Salon for middle grade readers. Her adult debut novel The Monstrous Misses Mai released in 2024, and Silver and Smoke released in 2025. She earned her bachelor’s in English at the University of New Mexico and her master’s in library information science at San Jose State University. She was born in Vietnam, grew up in Orange County, California, and now resides in Los Angeles with her family. Follow to check out her work 🥳
Once again thank you to Huntington Beach. For more community events and info follow