Dust Child

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Finalist for the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The author of the award-winningThe Mountains Singreturns with a suspenseful and moving saga of wartime love, family, loss, and redemption set in Vit Nam.

In 1969, sisters Trang and Qunh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village to work in a bar in Si Gn. Once in the big city, the young girls learn how to drink and flirt (and more) with American GIs in return for money.

Decades later, an American veteran, Dan, returns to Vit Nam with his wife, Linda, hoping to find a way to heal from his PTSD; instead, secrets he thought he had buried surface and threaten his marriage. At the same time, Phongthe son of a Black American soldier and a Vietnamese womanembarks on a search to find both his parents and a way out of Vit Nam to a better life in the United States for himself, his wife Bnh, and his children.

Past and present converge as these characters come together to confront decisions made during a time of wardecisions that reverberate throughout one another’s lives and ultamately allow themand find common ground across race, generation, culture, and language. Immersive, moving, and lyrical,Dust Childtells an unforgettablestory of how those who inherited tragedy can redefine their destinies with hard-earned wisdom, compassion, courage, and joy.