When Ann Tran gets the call that her fierc ely beloved grandmother\, Minh\, has passed away\, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she's last seen Minh\, Ann has built a se emingly perfect life--a beautiful lake house\, a charming professor boyfri end\, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and g ood taste--but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future now in question\, Ann retur ns home to Florida to face her estranged mother\, Huơng.
\nBack i n Florida\, Huơng \;is simultaneously mourning her mother and resen ting her for having the relationship with Ann that she never did. Then Ann and Huơng \;learn that Minh has left them both the Banyan House\, the crumbling old manor that was Ann's childhood home\, in all its strange \, Gothic glory. Under the same roof for the first time in years\, mother and daughter must face the simmering questions of their past and their unc ertain futures\, while trying to rebuild their relationship without the on e person who's always held them together.
\nRunning parallel to this is Minh's story\, as she goes from a lovestruck teenager living in the sh adow of the Vietnam War to a determined young mother immigrating to Americ a in search of a better life for her children. And when Ann makes a shocki ng discovery in the Banyan House's attic\, long-buried secrets come to lig ht as it becomes clear how decisions Minh made in her youth affected the r est of her life--and beyond.
\nSpanning decades and continents\, fro m 1960s Vietnam to the wild swamplands of the Florida coast\, \;Banyan Moon \;is a stunning and deeply moving story of mothers and daughters \, the things we inherit\, and the lives we choose to make out of that inh eritance.
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