Then Ann and Huơng learn that Minh has left them both the Banyan House, the crumbling old manor that was Ann’s childhood home, in all its strange, Gothic glory. With both her relationship and carefully planned future now in question, Ann returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Huơng.īack in Florida, Huơng is simultaneously mourning her mother and resenting her for having the relationship with Ann that she never did. In the years since she’s last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life-a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste-but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test.
When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. “A celebration of life in all its forms and a joy to read.”- Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The ExilesĪ sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family’s inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories.
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