Banyan moon: a novel
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"A riveting mother-daughter tale." — Elle
"Radiant. … An intimate account of one family’s planting of roots in American soil and the sacrifices great and small that each member makes along the way.” — Washington Post
A 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.
When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. 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. With both her relationship and carefully planned future now in question, Ann returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Huong.
Back in Florida, Huong is simultaneously mourning her mother and resenting her for having the relationship with Ann that she never did. Then Ann and Huong 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. Under the same roof for the first time in years, mother and daughter must face the simmering questions of their past and their uncertain futures, while trying to rebuild their relationship 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 for her children. And when Ann makes a shocking discovery in the Banyan House’s attic, long-buried secrets come to light as it becomes clear how decisions Minh made in her youth affected the rest of her life—and beyond.
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.
Asian American families -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
Estranged families
Estranged families -- Fiction
Family secrets
Family secrets -- Fiction
Fiction
Generations
Generations -- Fiction
Grief
Grief -- Fiction
Literature
Manors
Manors -- Fiction
Mothers and daughters
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Vietnamese Americans
Vietnamese Americans -- Fiction
9780063267121
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Grouping Title | banyan moon |
Grouping Author | thao thai |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2024-05-21 11:34:27AM |
Last Indexed | 2024-05-21 11:36:40AM |
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Family secrets -- Fiction
Generations -- Fiction
Grief -- Fiction
Manors -- Fiction
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Vietnamese Americans -- Fiction
Banyan moon : a novel / Thao Thai
Estranged families
Family secrets
Fiction
Generations
Grief
Literature
Manors
Mothers and daughters
Vietnamese Americans
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