If I Had Two Lives
Book Details: Publisher: Europa Editions Release Date: April 9, 2019 Format: Paperback ISBN-13: 9781609455217 ABOUT THE BOOK: This luminous debut novel, which has earned impressive early reviews from media including The New Yorker , The Los Angeles Review of Books and Foreword Reviews , follows a young woman from her childhood in Vietnam to her life as an immigrant in the United States – and her necessary return to her homeland. As a child, isolated from the world in a secretive military encampment with her distant mother, she turns to a sympathetic soldier for affection and to the only other girl in the camp, forming two friendships that will shape the rest of her life. As a young adult in New York, cut off from her native country and haunted by the scars of her youth, she is still in search of a home. She falls in love with a married woman who is the image of her childhood friend, and follows strangers because they remind her of her soldier. When tragedy a...