Build Your House Around My Body

Thank you Random House for this gifted book.

Happy Sunday! I’m barely with it this morning and playing catch-up after several days of tournament baseball. Our kids came in 4th place, and this was their first year as a team!

Check out the cover of this beautiful book! Build Your House Around My Body looks like it tells an epic tale and I can’t wait to start reading it.

𝘛𝘸𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘨𝘰 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵. 𝘉𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦.

1986: The teenage daughter of a wealthy Vietnamese family loses her way in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed.

2011: A young, unhappy Vietnamese American woman disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace.

The fates of these two women are inescapably linked, bound together by past generations, by ghosts and ancestors, by the history of possessed bodies and possessed lands. Alongside them, we meet a young boy who is sent to a boarding school for the métis children of French expatriates, just before Vietnam declares its independence from colonial rule; two Frenchmen who are trying to start a business with the Vietnam War on the horizon; and the employees of the Saigon Spirit Eradication Co., who find themselves investigating 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 them all.

Build Your House Around My Body takes us from colonial mansions to ramshackle zoos, from sweaty nightclubs to the jostling seats of motorbikes, from ex-pat flats to sizzling back-alley street carts. Spanning more than fifty years of Vietnamese history and barreling toward an unforgettable conclusion, this is a time-traveling, heart-pounding, border-crossing fever dream of a novel that will haunt you long after the last page.

💬𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰?