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Build Your House Around My Body

A Novel

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Build Your House Around My Body

By: Violet Kupersmith
Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022

Two young Vietnamese women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless; both are lost. And both will have their revenge.

1986: The teenage daughter of a wealthy Vietnamese family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed by the experience.

2011: Twenty-five years later, a young, unhappy Vietnamese American disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace.

The fates of both women are inescapably linked, bound together by past generations, by ghosts and ancestors, by the history of possessed bodies and possessed lands. Violet Kupersmith's heart-pounding fever dream of a novel hurtles through the ghostly secrets of Vietnamese history to create an immersive, playful, utterly unforgettable debut.

©2021 Oneworld Publications (P)2022 Oneworld Publications Fiction Genre Fiction Magical Realism United States World Literature Fantasy Haunted Magic Heartfelt Ghost
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