One of TIME Magazine''s Must-Read Books of the Year
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction 2024
Longlisted for the Women''s Prize for Fiction 2023
-A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope.- -Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We-re Briefly Gorgeous and Time Is a Mother
There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies-everything in between is speculation.
After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Minh, and Thanh journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left orphaned, and sixteen-year-old Anh becomes the caretaker for her two younger brothers overnight.
In the years that follow, Anh and her brothers immigrate to the UK, living first in overcrowded camps and resettlement centers and then, later, i
