Brothers and Ghosts

`A courageous and bold achievement by a bright new voice. Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth Were Briefly Gorgeous. A young woman, torn between two cultures, belonging to neither. A family, torn apart by a war they had no choice about. Kiu calls herself Kim because its easier for Europeans to pronounce. She knows little about her Vietnamese familys history until she receives a Facebook message from her estranged uncle Sn in America, telling her that her grandmother is dying. Her father and uncle havent spoken since the end of the Vietnam War. Minh supported the Vietcong, while Sn sided with the Americans. When Kiu and her parents travel to America to join the rest of the family in California for the funeral, questions relating to their past to what has been suppressed resurface and demand to be addressed.