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The Mountains Sing

Winner of the Blogger`s Book Prize, 2021Winner of Best Literary Fiction and Best Multicultural Fiction at American Book Fest International Book Awards, 2021`An epic account of Viet Nam`s painful 20th-century history, both vast in scope and intimate in its telling… Moving and riveting.` Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer Selected as a Best Book of 2020 by NB Magazine * BookBrowse * Buzz Magazine * NPR * Washington Independent Review of Books * Real Simple * She Reads * A Hindu`s View * Thoughts from a PageOne family, two generations of women and a war that will change their lives foreverHa Noi, 1972. As war breaks out in Viet Nam, twelve-year-old Huong clings to her grandmother in an improvised shelter as American bombs fall around them. For her grandmother, the experience is horribly familiar. This is a woman who knows what it takes to hold a family together as a country crumbles. And now, coming of age in a nation rocked by conflict, Huong must do the same.With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee`s Pachinko and the haunting beauty of Khaled Hosseini`s The Kite Runner, The Mountains Sing tells the enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Tran family, intimate, lyrical and bursting with life.