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About the book:

A girl who grows up in the midst of war-torn Hanoi yet never gives up hope. A matriarch who goes to extreme lengths for her family. A family epic spanning an entire century. It is the early 1970s in Hanoi: Hu’o’ng lives with her grandmother; her father is missing in action, and her mother followed him in the hope of finding him. On many long evenings, the grandmother tells Hu'o'ng the story of her family—a story that begins in peace and prosperity but, in the wake of foreign occupation, land reform, and war, becomes one of displacement, flight, and unspeakable suffering. Yet the women of the family are strong and determined to wrest a future worth living from the grip of fate.

The book was published on February 15, 2023