by Nghi Vo
First published 2025
Freshly orphaned, Ahn Thi journeys to her family's remote Vietnamese village, seeking answers about her mother's mysterious death. Haunted by her mother's final words, she navigates a web of lies and secrets woven into the fabric of her ancestral home. As Ahn Thi digs deeper, she confronts a past steeped in ancient magic and unimaginable sacrifice. With time running out, she must choose between the comfort of ignorance and the pain of truth.
Genres: family, literary-fiction, historical-fiction, fantasy, asian-american, family-drama
Vibes: intimate, lyrical, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
112 pages · Hardcover · Tordotcom
Content warnings: death