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black cake Charmaine Wilkerson
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books set in Vietnam
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Everything I never told you Celeste Ng
family dramas
family secrets
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historical novel
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Language_English
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Memphis Tara M. Stringfellow
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pachinko Min Jin Lee
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Vietnam War
Product details
- ISBN 9781529431995
- Weight: 240g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jun 2024
- Publisher: Quercus Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The perfect book club read
FOR FANS OF CELESTE NG and MIN JIN LEE.
'A riveting mother-daughter tale' Elle
'Spellbinding and intricately layered' E.M. Tran
'A gripping tale about motherhood' Heat
'This novel has everything you want' Meng Jin
'A haunting page turner' Carolyn Huynh
'Heart-shatteringly beautiful' Nguyen Phan Que Mai
Ann Tran is already at a crossroads when she gets the call that her beloved grandmother, Minh, has died. With a beautiful home and a charming boyfriend, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life, but it all crumbles away with one positive pregnancy test.
With her carefully planned future now in question, Ann returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Hu'o'ng. Under the same roof for the first time in years, mother and daughter must face the simmering questions of their past, without the one person who's always held them together.
Running parallel to this is Minh's story, as she goes from a lovestruck teenager living in the shadow of the Vietnam War to a determined young mother immigrating to America in search of a better life. And when Ann makes a shocking discovery in the Banyan House's attic, long-buried secrets come to light.
Spanning decades and continents, from 1960s Vietnam to the wild swamplands of the Florida coast, Banyan Moon is a stunning and deeply moving story of mothers and daughters, the things we inherit, and the lives we choose to make out of that inheritance.
FOR FANS OF CELESTE NG and MIN JIN LEE.
'A riveting mother-daughter tale' Elle
'Spellbinding and intricately layered' E.M. Tran
'A gripping tale about motherhood' Heat
'This novel has everything you want' Meng Jin
'A haunting page turner' Carolyn Huynh
'Heart-shatteringly beautiful' Nguyen Phan Que Mai
Ann Tran is already at a crossroads when she gets the call that her beloved grandmother, Minh, has died. With a beautiful home and a charming boyfriend, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life, but it all crumbles away with one positive pregnancy test.
With her carefully planned future now in question, Ann returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Hu'o'ng. Under the same roof for the first time in years, mother and daughter must face the simmering questions of their past, without the one person who's always held them together.
Running parallel to this is Minh's story, as she goes from a lovestruck teenager living in the shadow of the Vietnam War to a determined young mother immigrating to America in search of a better life. And when Ann makes a shocking discovery in the Banyan House's attic, long-buried secrets come to light.
Spanning decades and continents, from 1960s Vietnam to the wild swamplands of the Florida coast, Banyan Moon is a stunning and deeply moving story of mothers and daughters, the things we inherit, and the lives we choose to make out of that inheritance.
Thao Thai is a writer living in Ohio with her husband and daughter. Her work engages with tangled family relationships and the intersections of motherhood and identity. She's been published in Cup of Jo, Eater, Catapult, Sunday Long Read, and more. A recipient of the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, she has also been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes and earned fellowships in creative writing. She received her MFA from the Ohio State University and her MA from the University of Chicago.
