Build Your House Around My Body Kupersmith Violet
Part puzzle, part revenge tale, part ghost story, this kaleidoscopic novel set in Vietnam spins half a century of history and folklore into the story of a missing woman.In 1986, the teenage daughter…
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Part puzzle, part revenge tale, part ghost story, this kaleidoscopic novel set in Vietnam spins half a century of history and folklore into the story of a missing woman.In 1986, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed by the experience.In 2009, pressed into a dangerous scheme by a former lover, a woman captures a rare two-headed cobra.And in 2011, a young, unhappy American living in Saigon with her sort-of boyfriend disappears without a trace.Over the course of the novel, the fates of these three women will lock together in an exhilarating series of nested narratives. Along the way, we meet a young boy sent to a boarding school in the mountains for the m tis children of French expatriates just before Vietnam declares its independence from colonial rule in 1945;