Daughters of the New Year by E.M. Tran [in Shelf Awareness]
13 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese American
E.M. Tran's author's note about the provenance of her absorbing debut novel begins with her mother's beauty pageant trophy, which always graced the top of the family piano. "How did it get there, through the chaos and danger of Saigon's collapse?" Tran asks. For refugees...