a novel Thai, Thao creator author. text Domestic fiction. Fiction. nyu 2023 First edition. monographic eng

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330 pages ; 24 cm. "When Ann Tran gets the call that her beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. Ann has built a seemingly perfect life. She lives in a beautiful lake house and has a charming professor boyfriend, but it all crumbles away 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, Hu'o'ng. Under the same roof for the first time in years, mother and daughter must face the simmering questions of their past, 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. 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 her family"-- [source not specified]. "Follows three generations of Vietnamese American women, revealing the family's inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories. Spanning decades and continents, from 1960s Vietnam to the wild swamplands of the Florida coast, this volume is a moving story of mothers and daughters, the things we inherit, and the lives we choose to make out of that inheritance"--Adapted from publisher's description. Thao Thai. Vietnamese Americans Fiction Family secrets Fiction Mothers Death Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Inheritance and succession Fiction PS3620.H347 .B36 2023 813.6 T326b 9780063267107 CSPC 260917 20260917033928.0 eng