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From leaving Vietnam in 1975 to building something that three generations now call their own, the final chapter of this 7-part series looks at how stays rooted in tradition while always keeping an eye on what's next.

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60 years of food, dance, and philoxenia. The Denver Greek Festival returns June 5, 6, and 7!

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Mimi didn't just inherit a store. She inherited everything her parents built for their community.

Chapter 6 of this 7-part series follows the next generation of Truong An Gifts.

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Would you drive from Colorado to California for fish sauce and bean paste? Thanh did it for his community.

Chapter 5 of this 7-part series is where it all began for Truong An Gifts.

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Youth mental health has become an emerging issue this election season. In the clip from tonight’s Colorado Inside Out, our panel discusses some of the root causes behind the state and country’s mental health crisis.

From viral blind boxes and collectibles to traditional cultural gifts, Denver’s Truong An Gifts has become a place where different generations connect through the things they love.

Chapter 4 of this 7-part series looks at the stories behind the items people bring home.

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PBS Books Readers Club welcomes New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman of Sam and Isola to discuss her brand-new novel This Is Not About Us. The episode premieres on May 27th at 8PM ET as a PBS Books Facebook Live event, on the PBS Books YouTube channel, pbsbooks.org, and the PBS app.

This is Not About Us opens as the youngest of the three Rubenstein sisters passes away, and a petty dispute at her funeral over an apple cake splits the remaining sisters apart. What follows is a family saga spanning three generations, unfolding life into vignettes that drop in on long marriages and divorces, teenage milestones and middle-age reckonings. Each chapter adds another layer to a family portrait that's complicated, constantly shifting, and never quite complete.

Witty, wise, and emotional, this novel moves through the messy, tender rhythms of a modern Jewish American family, including sisters who irritate and sustain each other, parents who mean well but fall short, and children who grow up and away. Goodman writes with clear-eyed warmth about the bonds we fracture and the ones we can't quite let go, finding humor and heartbreak in equal measure.

Allegra reflects, “Showing these different perspectives— being an 11-year-old girl, and being a woman in her 70s who's dying of cancer, and being the aggravated middle-aged sons who are trying to figure out how to celebrate her life when she doesn't want to be celebrated in the way that they do – That’s really my art and that's my job… to get inside of people.”

At 23 years old, she had to make a decision: continue chasing her dream of modeling, or commit to the family business.

Chapter 3 of this 7-part series follows the choice that would shape her future at Truong An Gifts.

We continue with Chapter 2 of this 7-part series with a family connection in Denver that leads to an unexpected first meeting at a front door, and the beginning of a marriage that has lasted more than 45 years.

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