Build Your House Around My Body Violet Kupersmith

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Ingenious, imaginative and a little bit creepy, this is Violet Kupersmith’s brilliant debut full-length novel. Drawing on her experiences of working as an English teacher in Vietnam, Kupersmith cleverly combines Vietnamese history and folklore to create a uniquely original story. The disappearance of two women, although a quarter of a century apart, are intrinsically linked. Bound together by ghosts, ancestors as well as possessed bodies and lands, Kupersmith has created a feverish fantasy that’s hard to put down.