A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK 'A riveting mother-daughter tale' Elle 'Beautifully gripping'
Heat'A joy to read' Christina Baker Kline author of The Exiles Ann Tran is already at a
crossroads when she gets the call that her beloved grandmother Minh has died. Ann has built a
seemingly perfect life. She lives in a beautiful lake house and has a charming professor
boyfriend but it all crumbles away 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'o'ng. Under the same roof for the first time in years mother and
daughter must face the simmering questions of their past while trying to rebuild their
relationship without the one person who's always held them together. Running parallel to this
is Minh's 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. And when Ann
makes a shocking discovery in the Banyan House's attic long-buried secrets come to light as it
becomes clear how decisions Minh made in her youth affected the rest of her life and her
family. 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. 'Heart-shatteringly
beautiful' Nguyen Phan Que Mai author of The Mountains Sing
