Launch of memoir 'The Mask Ripper' by author Bui Mai Hanh

(CLO) On December 6, at the Vietnam Women's Museum (Hanoi), author Bui Mai Hanh introduced to the public her new book "The Mask Ripper - Memoirs of a Life Coach".

Scene of the book launch ceremony "The Mask Ripper - Memoirs of a Life Coach".

“The Mask Ripper - Memoirs of a Life Coach” is a memoir - autobiography of a woman who lived a full "sixty-year cycle" with all the nine palaces of emotions: love, hate, joy, anger, greed, anger, ignorance, tragedy, and comedy of a lifetime.

With her painful, profound, courageous literature, she tore off the mask of seeming contentment and happiness, "revealing" for everyone to see her "back" which was full of bumps and scars accumulated throughout a lifetime from a wounded little girl, to a lonely young woman, to a bitter young woman.

Sharing at the event, author Bui Mai Hanh said that the book “The Mask Ripper” is for mothers, and more broadly for mothers in this life, women who often hide their tears at night, still silently endure, still silently sacrifice without always knowing how to name their own pain.

Author Bui Mai Hanh shared at the book launch ceremony "The Mask Ripper - Memoirs of a Life Coach".

The book consists of 4 main parts and the final part , Epilogue . Part I: "Finding the way" is to find the way out of the deadlock, as Bui Mai Hanh affirmed, it is the behavioral science : Life coaching. That path helps her transform herself, go through the stages. Part II: "Healing", Part III: "Reclaiming", and finally "Part IV: Becoming".

If the beginning of the book is about a marriage of “sleeping in the same bed with different dreams”, then the end of the book is the pages that she considers “tearing off the last mask” in a “repentant” conversation with her husband. The collection of poems written for her husband, The Singer, was published (March 2025), as a result of a strong transformation, the wounds in her soul have been and are being healed.

The book "The Mask Ripper - Memoirs of a Life Coach".

Spanning 440 pages, the author does not hesitate to open wide the doors to reveal the dark corners of her life and soul.

Twenty years from the first famous book telling other people's stories to the first book telling her own story, that is the long journey that author Bui Mai Hanh wants to share: "Step by step, I peel off the layers of masks, in bitter pain, in quiet noise. Maturity has the taste of sweet sadness. I have chosen but also have the right to choose again. I do not need to be loyal to the first choice. I do not need to hide in the dark for my whole life. Realizing this is letting go of the burden of the past. It is approaching the past from a different perspective . "

The book opens up dark corners filled with humiliation, pain, embarrassment, hurt… Bui Mai Hanh does not intend to attract attention, call for sympathy or find a new, good face for herself, exposing a few other faces to shame.

Source: https://congluan.vn/ra-mat-hoi-ky-nguoi-xe-mat-na-cua-tac-gia-bui-mai-hanh-10321608.html