![]() Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds the three women together. Along the way, we meet a young boy sent to a boarding school in the mountains for the métis children of French expatriates just before Vietnam declares its independence from colonial rule in 1945 two Frenchmen trying to start a business with the Vietnam War on the horizon and the employees of the Saigon Spirit Eradication Co., called to investigate strange occurrences in a farmhouse on the edge of a forest. Over the course of the novel, the fates of these three women will lock together in an exhilarating series of nested narratives. In 2009, pressed into a dangerous scheme by a former lover, a woman captures a rare two-headed cobra.Īnd in 2011, a young, unhappy American living in Saigon with her sort-of boyfriend disappears without a trace. In 1986, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed by the experience. Part puzzle, part revenge tale, part ghost story, this kaleidoscopic novel set in Vietnam spins half a century of history and folklore into the story of a missing woman. ![]()
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