build your house around my body by violet kupersmith

Neither will you.' - Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts Thrilling, witty, disturbing, righteous - I won't be able to shut up about how damned awesome this book is. 'A brilliant, sweeping epic that swaps spirits and sheds time like snakeskin, Build Your House Around My Body is a marvel. This literally haunting tale will stay with you long after the last page is turned.' - Valerie Martin, author of Property and I Give it to You Her intricately plotted, flamboyantly original novel is by turns steamy, grisly, comic, horrific, and touching. 'Violet Kupersmith has elevated the ghost story into an art form.

'A heady, gothic spellbinder of a book.' - Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble An absolute triumph of storytelling.' - Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and the City Careering through a host of snaking lives, eras, and beautifully drawn locations in Vietnam, Build Your House Around My Body is mesmerising. 'Creepy, exciting, moving, insanely funny: a sweat-soaked reading delight. Drawing from genres as diverse as horror, humour and historical fiction, Kupersmith creates a rich and dazzling spectacle.' - Kirkus, starred review 'A wide-ranging first novel that peels back the layers of a haunted Vietnam. It is the sort of book you force on your friends, just so you can talk to them about it.' - Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You and Starling Days Beware! This book might swallow you up.' - Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves This impressively constructed weave of stories is gorgeous, completely original, and quite disturbing, usually all three at the same time. 'What a joy to return to the numinously spooky world of Kupersmith and find the ghosts of history and family still haunting her pages. Publisher: Oneworld Publications ISBN: 9780861542147 Number of pages: 400 Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm MEDIA REVIEWS

Barrelling through the sweaty nightclubs of Saigon to ramshackle zoos, colonial mansions and haunted forests, Violet Kupersmith's heart-pounding fever dream of a novel deftly combines Vietnamese history and folklore to create an immersive, playful, utterly unforgettable debut. 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. And both will have their revenge.ġ986: 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.Ģ011: Twenty-five years later, a young, unhappy Vietnamese-American named Winnie disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace. Two young Vietnamese women go missing decades apart. Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022

Build your house around my body by violet kupersmith