"When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother Minh has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she's last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life ... but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and her carefully planned future now in question, Ann returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Hương. Back in Florida, Hương is simultaneously mourning her mother and resenting her for having the relationship with Ann that she never did. Then Ann and Hương learn that Minh has left both of them the Banyan House, a deteriorating old manor that was Ann's childhood home ... Under the same roof for the first time in years, mother and daughter must face the simmering questions of their past and their uncertain future, 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 for her children. 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 beyond"--Dust jacket flap.
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