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A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick<\/p>\n

“A riveting mother-daughter tale.” \u2014 Elle<\/p>\n

“”Radiant. \u2026 An intimate account of one family\u2019s planting of roots in American soil and the sacrifices great and small that each member makes along the way.\u201d \u2014 Washington Post<\/p>\n

A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family\u2019s inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life\u2014a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste\u2014but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future now in question, Ann returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Hu\u01a1ng.<\/p>\n

Back in Florida, Hu\u01a1ng is simultaneously mourning her mother and resenting her for having the relationship with Ann that she never did. Then Ann and Hu\u01a1ng learn that Minh has left them both the Banyan House, the crumbling old manor that was Ann\u2019s childhood home, in all its strange, Gothic glory. Under the same roof for the first time in years, mother and daughter must face the simmering questions of their past and their uncertain futures, while trying to rebuild their relationship without the one person who\u2019s always held them together.<\/p>\n

Running parallel to this is Minh\u2019s 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\u2019s attic, long-buried secrets come to light as it becomes clear how decisions Minh made in her youth affected the rest of her life\u2014and beyond.<\/p>\n

Spanning decades and continents, from 1960s Vietnam to the wild swamplands of the Florida coast, Banyan Moon is a stunning and deeply moving story of mothers and daughters, the things we inherit, and the lives we choose to make out of that inheritance.<\/p>\n

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Customers praise the book for its well-written and expressive writing style. They describe it as a lovely, memorable read with a heartwarming storyline of three generations of strong women. Readers appreciate the vivid depiction of Vietnamese culture and folklore, as well as the author’s use of symbolism and extended metaphors. The multigenerational saga is described as character-driven and uplifting.<\/span><\/p>\n

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