Build your house around my body : a novel / Violet Kupersmith.
"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; two Frenchmen trying to start a business with the Vietnam War on the horizon; and the employees of the Saigon Spirit Eradication Co., called to investigate strange occurrences in a farmhouse on the edge of a forest. Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds the three women together, and what happened to Winnie. Written with wit, ambition, and playfulness, this book takes us from sweaty nightclubs to ramshackle zoos, colonial mansions to ex-pat flats, sizzling back-alley street carts to the noisy seats of motorbikes. Spanning over fifty years and barreling toward an unforgettable conclusion, this is a fever dream about possessed bodies and possessed lands, a time-traveling, heart-pounding, border-crossing marvel of a novel"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780812993325
- ISBN: 0812993322
- Physical Description: 378 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2021]
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Subject: | Missing persons > Fiction. Women > Vietnam > Fiction. |
Genre: | Magic realist fiction. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Lackawanna County Library System.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Abington Community Library | FICTION KUPERSM (Text) | 50687011721324 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
Albright Memorial Library | FICTION KUPERSM (Text) | 50686015734374 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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