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Build Your House Around My Body

Kupersmith, Violet

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‘Gorgeous, completely original, and quite disturbing, usually all three at the same time. Beware! This book might swallow you up.’ Karen Joy Fowler, bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

A Kirkus selection: ‘8 Novels to Read This Summer’

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 named Winnie 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. Barrelling through the sweaty nightclubs of Saigon to ramshackle zoos, colonial mansions and haunted forests, Violet Kupersmith’s heart-pounding fever dream of a novel deftly combines Vietnamese history and folklore to create an immersive, playful, utterly unforgettable debut.

Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Imprint: Oneworld
Publication date: 03/03/2022

Staff review

Build Your House Around My Body
By Violet Kupersmith
Review by Jack
Intricate, electric and enticing! A complex novel tracing a century of Vietnamese history, laden with elements of horror, folklore, family legacy, love and hate. It’s razor-sharp, fast-paced, and filled with intrigue and mystery, but it is also thoughtful and well developed. A stunning read for those who can handle it!

ISBN: 9780861542147 Category: Tag