She Weeps Each Time You're Born by Quan Barry

She Weeps Each Time You're Born by Quan Barry

Quan Barry's luminous fiction debut brings us the tumultuous history of modern Vietnam as experienced by a young girl born under mysterious circumstances a few years before the country's reunification, a child gifted with the otherworldly ability to hear the voices of the dead.

At the peak of the war in Vietnam, a baby girl is born along the Song Ma River on the night of the full moon. This is Rabbit, who will journey away from her destroyed village with a makeshift family thrown together by war. Here is a Vietnam we've never encountered before: Through Rabbit's inexplicable but radiant intuition, we are privy to an intimate version of history, from the days of French Indochina and the World War I rubber plantations through the chaos of postwar reunification.

With its use of magical realism--Rabbit's ability to hear the dead--the novel reconstructs a turbulent historical period through a painterly human lens. This is the moving story of one woman's struggle to unearth the true history of Vietnam while simultaneously carving out a place for herself within it.

Born in Saigon and raised on Boston s north shore, Quan Barry is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Madison and the author of four poetry books; her third book, Water Puppets, won the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and was a PEN/Open Book finalist. She has received NEA Fellowships in both fiction and poetry, and her work has appeared in such publications as Ms. and The New Yorker. Barry lives in Wisconsin.

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ISBN 13	9780307911773
ISBN 10	0307911772
Title	She Weeps Each Time You're Born
Author	Quan Barry
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Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2015-02-10
Number of pages	288
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