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Sebastian Thach

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Sebastian Thach was born in Saigon, left Vietnam at a young age, and stayed as a boat refugee in Thailand for nearly a year before arriving in the U.S.

He received his Bachelor of Science in Interior Design from Cornell University.

He worked at New York City and Stockholm architectural firms and was a Design Director for a small architectural firm in Stockholm.

Sebastian is trilingual in English, Swedish, and Vietnamese.
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His Saigon Chronicles—Cà Phê Đen (Black Coffee), Captives, and Murky Water—are tales of individuals transformed by the Vietnam War. Although scattered across the globe, their lives are still intertwined. These tales of love, loyalty, and betrayal illuminate the meaning and the cost of freedom and independence.
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Cà Phê Đen (Saigon Chronicles)​

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, LGBTQ, Romance

Yearning to attract its expatriates home, Vietnam has officially changed Ho Chi Minh City to Saigon once again. Vietnam hopes to harness the talents, education, and creativity that four and a half million Việt Kiều accumulated over the years.

Architect and real estate developer Jasper left Vietnam more than forty years ago and was eager to return to his beloved Saigon, where he was born and raised, to bring green and sustainable architecture to its inhabitants.

Follow him into three countries as he escaped from Vietnam after the war as a boat refugee to find a better future in the US, only to later land in Sweden.
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Cà Phê Đen (Black Coffee) is a light-hearted story, with occasional gut-wrenching heartbreaks, of a mother's unconditional love and sacrifice, a tale of love and betrayal, and a love reunited after half a century of separation.
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Captives (Saigon Chronicles)

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, LGBTQ, Romance

Captives follows Lúc's journey from a Vietnamese college to his arrival in the US.

To say his life is hellish would be an understatement.

What's it like to love and to be haunted by that love?

What's it like to fight on the opposing side against your lover in the Vietnam War?

What's it like to fight for your country?
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What would it be like to meet a lover who'd died years prior?
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Murky Water

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Historical Fiction, Romance

Murky Water illuminates Cẩm's harrowing journey into womanhood. Although forced to fend for herself at a tender age in a war-torn Saigon, she never gave in. She used all her skills and summoned her inner strength to survive. At some point, life might break her, or would it?

Love was just as fleeting. Love lost and found, and lost again. One could say that the gods were jealous of her rosy cheeks and red lips to send her on such a pilgrimage.
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