Build Your House Around My Body

WINNER OF THE 2023 BARD FICTION PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION’S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION Fantastic The Sunday Times * Beautiful, brilliant, powerful Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe Part ghost story, part searing exploration of Vietnams colonial past, Violet Kupersmiths debut novel is a must read for fans of Cecile Pin, NoViolet Bulawayo or Ruth Ozeki  Two young Vietnamese women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are lost. And both will have their revenge. 1986: The teenage daughter of a wealthy Vietnamese family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father, and is forever changed by the experience.  2011: Twenty-five years later, a young, unhappy Vietnamese-American disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace. The fates of both women are inescapably linked, bound together by past generations, by ghosts and ancestors, by the history of possessed bodies and possessed lands. Violet Kupersmiths heart-pounding fever dream of a novel hurtles through the ghostly secrets of Vietnamese history to create an immersive, playful, utterly unforgettable debut. Fiction as daring and accomplished as Violet Kupersmiths first novel reignites my love of the form and its kaleidoscopic possibilities David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas