Daughters of the New Year

By E.M. Tran,

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"A daring debut." –New York Times Book Review

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A lively, spellbinding tale…

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1 author picked Daughters of the New Year as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

There’s so much to love in Daughters of the New Year. I was captivated by the way the mythology of the Vietnamese zodiac provides a frame for this story of family and immigration and the generational legacy of trauma.

In the present generation of Vietnamese women, one of the daughters is on a reality TV show, and I’m always a sucker for books about reality TV. But what really stuck out to me is the book’s structure, moving backward in time through the generations of women, the narrative becoming fuzzier and fuzzier in the distant past.

It shouldn’t work,…

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