Please note that the Kindle version of this book kept crashing so I had to read this through the NetGalley app. *Thanks, NetGalley, for giving me a free copy of this book in exchange for my fair and honest opinion.
It was delightful, and I could not have pronounced all of the words without it. Tip: If you are interested in this book, I would HIGHLY recommend the audiobook version. By the last 90 percent of the book, I had a good idea how all of the characters were related but then I didn't understand the ending at all and felt really disappointed that I actually stuck with this book all the way to the end and didn't give up, only to be letdown with no payoff. Even by the halfway point, I was still wondering what was going on and how all of the characters were related. The book is told in alternating time periods and involves different characters.
However, it was very long, and I didn't understand the ending.
It had some fantasy, some strong prose, and it felt non-American. How do these two stories intersect?īuild Your House Around My Body should have been the perfect book for me. There is also Binh, a young woman who lives in Vietnam. Winnie is an American woman living in Vietnam, trying to find herself. 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. 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. Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds the three women together. Along the way, we meet a young boy sent to a boarding school in the mountains for the métis 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. Over the course of the novel, the fates of these three women will lock together in an exhilarating series of nested narratives. In 2009, pressed into a dangerous scheme by a former lover, a woman captures a rare two-headed cobra.Īnd in 2011, a young, unhappy American living in Saigon with her sort-of boyfriend disappears without a trace. 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. Part puzzle, part revenge tale, part ghost story, this kaleidoscopic novel set in Vietnam spins half a century of history and folklore into the story of a missing woman.
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