She Weeps Each Time You're Born A Novel Author:Quan barry An extraordinary, luminous fiction debut: the tumultuous history of modern Vietnam as experienced by a young girl born under mysterious circumstances a few years before reunification?and with the otherworldly ability to hear the voices of the dead. — — In 1972, in a torched hamlet along the Song Ma River, a baby is born in her mother?s grave, li... more »terally dug from the ground to begin her life. This is Rabbit, with whom we journey, along with her grandmother, away from the destroyed village into a makeshift family of both North and South Vietnamese refugees who band together to make a new life in the chaos of the war-torn country. Quan Barry?s 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 Indochine and the World War II rubber plantations through the chaos?both political and deeply, often dangerously, personal?of reunification. With its use of magical realism?Rabbit?s ability to ?hear? where the dead are buried, which causes her to be at first celebrated, then reviled by the new government?the novel follows in the tradition of books such as Toni Morrison?s Beloved, reconstructing a tumultuous historical period through a painterly, human lens. Ultimately She Weeps Each Time You?re Born is the moving story of one woman?s struggle to unearth the true history of Vietnam while simultaneously carving a place for herself within it.« less
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