Daughters of the New Year
Books | Fiction / Asian American
3.7
E.M. Tran
A MARIE CLAIRE BOOK CLUB PICKA Recommended Read from: Salon * Good Morning America * People Magazine * Electric Lit * Goodreads * Buzzfeed * The Seattle Times * Deep South Magazine * Book Culture * Debutiful "A daring debut." —New York Times Book ReviewA lively, spellbinding tale about the extraordinary women within a Vietnamese immigrant family—and the ancient zodiac legend that binds them togetherWhat does the future hold for those born in the years of the Dragon, Tiger, and Goat?In present day New Orleans, Xuan Trung, former beauty queen turned refugee after the Fall of Saigon, is obsessed with divining her daughters' fates through their Vietnamese zodiac signs. But Trac, Nhi and Trieu diverge completely from their immigrant parents' expectations. Successful lawyer Trac hides her sexuality from her family; Nhi competes as the only woman of color on a Bachelor-esque reality TV show; and Trieu, a budding writer, is determined to learn more about her familial and cultural past.As the three sisters begin to encounter strange glimpses of long-buried secrets from the ancestors they never knew, the story of the Trung women unfurls to reveal the dramatic events that brought them to America. Moving backwards in time, E.M. Tran takes us into the high school classrooms of New Orleans, to Saigon beauty pageants, to twentieth century rubber plantations, traversing a century as the Trungs are both estranged and united by the ghosts of their tumultuous history.A “haunted story of resilience and survival” (Meng Jin, Little Gods), Daughters of the New Year is an addictive, high-wire act of storytelling that illuminates an entire lineage of extraordinary women fighting to reclaim the power they’ve been stripped of for centuries.
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Author
E.M. Tran
Pages
320
Publisher
Harlequin
Published Date
2022-10-11
ISBN
0369722647 9780369722645
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"I wasn’t sure what I thought of this book until reading the author’s note at the end. I would say I struggled with finding the direction it was going until I read her note and it all made sense. And it’s something I wish I could do for my own family, whose history I wish so badly I could fill in. "