Wandering Souls by Pin, Cecile

Wandering Souls

"A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope."--Ocean VuongA boldly imagined debut novel about...
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Author: Cecile Pin
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Language: English
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Wandering Souls by Pin, Cecile

Wandering Souls

$319.05

Wandering Souls

$319.05
Author: Cecile Pin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

"A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope."--Ocean Vuong

A boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, expanding into a luminous meditation on ancestry and love

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, Thanh, and Minh begin a perilous 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 resettle in the UK and confront their new identities as refugees, first in overcrowded camps and resettlement centers and then, later, in a modernizing London plagued by social inequality and raging anti-immigrant sentiment. Anh works in a clothing factory to pay their bills. Minh loiters about with fellow unemployed high school dropouts. Thanh, the youngest, plays soccer with his British friends after class. As they mature, each sibling reckons with survivor's guilt, unmoored by their parents' absence. With every choice they make, their paths diverge further, until it's unclear if love alone can keep them together.

Told through lyrical narrative threads, historical research, voices from lost family, and notes by an unnamed narrator determined to chart their fate, Wandering Souls captures the lives of a family marked by war and loss yet relentless in the pursuit of a better future. With urgency and precision, it affirms that the most important stories are those we claim for ourselves, establishing Cecile Pin as a masterful new literary voice.

Author: Cecile Pin
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: 03/21/2023
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250863461


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2022 pg. 5
Publishers Weekly 01/16/2023

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