build your house around my body violet kupersmith

'This impressively constructed weave of stories, haunted by the ghosts of history and family, is gorgeous, completely original, and quite disturbing-usually all at the same time. 'A heady, gothic, spellbinder of a book.' - Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble Neither will you.' - Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Survivor Song Thrilling, witty, disturbing, righteous-I won't be able to shut up about how damned awesome this book is. 'A brilliant, sweeping epic that swaps spirits and sheds time like snakeskin, Build Your House Around My Body is a marvel. Drawing from genres as diverse as horror, humor, and historical fiction, Kupersmith creates a rich and dazzling spectacle.' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 'The novel is epic enough in scope to require a character list and several pages of maps, but the pages fly as the reader is compelled to figure out how all the narratives will eventually collide. 'Kupersmith's exceptional debut novel offers profound and original insight on Vietnam's tortured history.These vivid vignettes-horrifying and hilarious by turns-are marvelously written.This more than fulfills the promise of her first book.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) 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. Part puzzle, part revenge tale, part ghost story, this book 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.

Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds them all. 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. 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. And both will have their revenge.ġ986: 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.Ģ011: A young, unhappy Vietnamese American woman disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace.

Two young women go missing decades apart. A century of Vietnam's history and folklore comes to life in this 'brilliant, sweeping epic that swaps spirits and sheds time like snakeskin' (Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Survivor Song).

Build your house around my body violet kupersmith