Name: Build Your House Around My Body - Violet Kupersmith
Brand: Violet Kupersmith
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Part puzzle, part revenge tale, part ghost story, this ingenious novel spins half a century of Vietnamese history and folklore into a thrilling read, acrobatic and filled with verve (The New York Times Editors' Choice). nFINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE - LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus Reviews n nFiction as daring and accomplished as Violet Kupersmith's first novel reignites my love of the form and its kaleidoscopic possibilities.--David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas n nTwo young women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are lost. And both will have their revenge. n n1986 The teenage daughter of a wealthy Vietnamese family loses her way in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed. n n2011 A young, unhappy Vietnamese American woman disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace. n nThe fates of these two women are inescapably linked, bound together by past generations, by ghosts and ancestors, by the history of possessed bodies and possessed lands. Alongside them, we meet a young boy who is sent to a boarding school for the métis children of French expatriates, just before Vietnam declares its independence from colonial rule; two Frenchmen who are trying to start a business with the Vietnam War on the horizon; and the employees of the Saigon Spirit Eradication Co., who find t