Build your house around my body : a novel
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New York : Random House, [2021].
Edition
First edition.
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378 pages ; 25 cm
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Ashland Library
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Published
New York : Random House, [2021].
Format
Book - Hardback
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

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Booklist,,June 01, 2021
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Publishers Weekly,,May 10, 2021
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Kirkus Reviews,,May 01, 2021
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Library Journal Prepub Alert,,January 13, 2021
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"In 1986, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed by the experience. In 2009, pressed into a dangerous scheme by a former lover, a woman captures a rare two-headed cobra. And in 2011, a young, unhappy American living in Saigon with her sort-of boyfriend, disappears without a trace. Over the course of the novel, the fates of these three women will lock together in an exhilarating series of nested narratives. Along the way, we meet a young boy sent to a boarding school in the mountains for the métis children of French expatriates just before Vietnam declares its independence from colonial rule in 1945; two Frenchmen trying to start a business with the Vietnam War on the horizon; and the employees of the Saigon Spirit Eradication Co., called to investigate strange occurrences in a farmhouse on the edge of a forest. Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds the three women together, and what happened to Winnie. Written with wit, ambition, and playfulness, this book takes us from sweaty nightclubs to ramshackle zoos, colonial mansions to ex-pat flats, sizzling back-alley street carts to the noisy seats of motorbikes. Spanning over fifty years and barreling toward an unforgettable conclusion, this is a fever dream about possessed bodies and possessed lands, a time-traveling, heart-pounding, border-crossing marvel of a novel"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Kupersmith, V. (2021). Build your house around my body: a novel (First edition.). Random House.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Kupersmith, Violet. 2021. Build Your House Around My Body: A Novel. Random House.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Kupersmith, Violet. Build Your House Around My Body: A Novel Random House, 2021.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Kupersmith, Violet. Build Your House Around My Body: A Novel First edition., Random House, 2021.

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