Banyan Moon

A sweeping historical novel about mothers, daughters and family secrets

By: Thao Thai

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Paperback | 10 September 2024 | Edition Number 1

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336 Pages

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19.6 x 13.0 x 2.2

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'A riveting mother-daughter tale' Elle

'Beautifully gripping' Heat
'A joy to read' Christina Baker Kline, author of The Exiles

Ann Tran is already at a crossroads when she gets the call that her beloved grandmother, Minh, has died. Ann has built a seemingly perfect life. She lives in a beautiful lake house and has a charming professor boyfriend, but it all crumbles away with one positive pregnancy test.

With both her relationship and carefully planned future now in question, Ann returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Hu'o'ng. Under the same roof for the first time in years, mother and daughter must face the simmering questions of their past, while trying to rebuild their relationship without the one person who's always held them together.

Running parallel to this is Minh's story, as she goes from a lovestruck teenager living in the shadow of the Vietnam War to a determined young mother immigrating to America in search of a better life. And when Ann makes a shocking discovery in the Banyan House's attic, long-buried secrets come to light as it becomes clear how decisions Minh made in her youth affected the rest of her life and her family.

Spanning decades and continents, from 1960s Vietnam to the wild swamplands of the Florida coast, Banyan Moon is a stunning and deeply moving story of mothers and daughters, the things we inherit, and the lives we choose to make out of that inheritance.

'Heart-shatteringly beautiful' Nguyen Phan Que Mai, author of The Mountains Sing

Industry Reviews

A riveting mother-daughter tale spanning two different timelines, and anchored by the magnetic pull of a Gothic home known as the Banyan House, Banyan Moon is author Thao Thai's beautiful debut - Elle, Best Books of 2023

A beautifully written, page-turning novel . . . Banyan Moon is a celebration of life in all its forms and a joy to read - Christina Baker Kline, author of THE EXILES

Heart-shatteringly beautiful . . . a love letter to keepers of secrets, to motherhood, family and survival. Thao Thai is a major talent - Nguyen Phan Que Mai, author of THE MOUNTAINS SING

Tender, gripping and heartbreaking. A haunting page turner that reexamines lineage, motherhood, and what it means to be a survivor . . . A welcome debut from a stunning voice who will forever impact the Vietnamese American canon - Carolyn Huynh, author of THE FORTUNES OF JADED WOMEN

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