Winner of the Blogger’s Book Prize, 2021 Shortlisted for the People’s Book Prize, 2021Winner of Best Literary Fiction and Best Multicultural Fiction at American Book Fest International Book Awards, 2021’An epic account of Viet Nam’s painful 20th-century history, both vast in scope and intimate in its telling… Moving and riveting.’ Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer Selected as a Best Book of 2020 by NB Magazine * BookBrowse * Buzz Magazine * NPR * Washington Independent Review of Books * Real Simple * She Reads * A Hindu’s View * Thoughts from a PageOne family, two generations of women and a war that will change their lives foreverHa Noi, 1972. Huong and her grandmother, Tran Dieu Lan, cling to one another in their improvised shelter as American bombs fall around them. For Tran Dieu Lan, forced to flee the family farm with her six children decades earlier as the Communist government rose to power in the North, this e