![]() ![]() Violet Kupersmith's heart-pounding fever dream of a novel hurtles through the ghostly secrets of Vietnamese history to create an immersive, playful, utterly unforgettable debut. Violet Kupersmith 3.84 5,620 ratings942 reviews Want to read Kindle 11.99 Rate this book 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. 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. And both will have their revenge.ġ986: 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.Ģ011: Twenty-five years later, a young, unhappy Vietnamese-American disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace. Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith Reviews: No reviews Add to cart £5.20 New RRP £8. ![]() Two young Vietnamese women go missing decades apart. She previously taught English with the Fulbright program in the Mekong Delta and was a creative writing fellow at the University of East Anglia. ![]() 'Beautiful, brilliant, powerful' Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe Violet Kupersmith is the author of the short story collection The Frangipani Hotel and the forthcoming novel Build Your House Around My Body. 2011: A young, unhappy Vietnamese American woman disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace. ![]()
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