| International Standard Book Number |
9780679645153 electronic book
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780812993325 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
0812993322 hardcover
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.6 23
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| Personal Name |
Kupersmith, Violet, author.
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| Title Statement |
Build your house around my body : a novel / Violet Kupersmith.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Random House, [2021]
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| Physical Description |
378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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| Content Type |
cartographic image cri rdacontent
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| Content Type |
still image sti rdacontent
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Series Statement |
The Frangipani House
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| Summary, Etc. |
"In 1986, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed by the experience. In 2009, pressed into a dangerous scheme by a former lover, a woman captures a rare two-headed cobra. And in 2011, a young, unhappy American living in Saigon with her sort-of boyfriend, disappears without a trace. Over the course of the novel, the fates of these three women will lock together in an exhilarating series of nested narratives. Along the way, we meet a young boy sent to a boarding school in the mountains for the Mâetis children of French expatriates just before Vietnam declares its independence from colonial rule in 1945; two Frenchmen trying to start a business with the Vietnam War on the horizon; and the employees of the Saigon Spirit Eradication Co., called to investigate strange occurrences in a farmhouse on the edge of a forest. Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds the three women together, and what happened to Winnie. Written with wit, ambition, and playfulness, this book takes us from sweaty nightclubs to ramshackle zoos, colonial mansions to ex-pat flats, sizzling back-alley street carts to the noisy seats of motorbikes. Spanning over fifty years and barreling toward an unforgettable conclusion, this is a fever dream about possessed bodies and possessed lands, a time-traveling, heart-pounding, border-crossing marvel of a novel"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Ghost stories.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Missing persons Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Revenge Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women Fiction. Vietnam
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568 fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women. homoit
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
FICTION / Literary. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Missing persons. (OCoLC)fst01023702 fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
FICTION / Asian American. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
FICTION / Magical Realism. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Vietnam. (OCoLC)fst01204778 fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787 fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Ghost stories. gsafd
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Magic realist fiction. (OCoLC)fst01922459 fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Magic realist fiction. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742 fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels. lcgft
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| Additional Physical Form Entry |
Online version: Kupersmith, Violet, First edition. New York : Random House, [2021] Build your house around my body (DLC) 2020044446 9780679645153
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