![]() ![]() And this one is determined never to be abandoned again. A home, after all, is only as powerful as those who breathe new life into its bones. She recruits Florence, the daughter of her dad's business associate (and more of a distraction than Jade bargained for) to help.īut the house has other plans. When her father and little sister don't believe her, Jade decides to scare them into leaving by staging some haunting events of her own. ![]() Then the ghost of a beautiful bride visits her with a cryptic warning: DON’T EAT. ![]() Just five weeks of ignoring the quietly decaying French colonial house he's fixing up, then college and freedom are hers.īut soon Jade begins waking up every morning certain that something has clawed down her om the inside. She’s straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough – at least for this summer with her estranged father in Vietnam. Trang Thanh Tran weaves an impressive gothic mystery in which Jades father is determined to restore a decrepit home to its former glory and Jade is the only person who feels the soul-crushing devastation of colonialism lingering within its walls. This deliciously spooky, yearningly romantic ghost story from a brilliant debut author will thrill fans of Kalynn Bayron and Wilder Girls by Rory Power. ![]()
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