The Reeducation of Cherry Truong

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A SWEEPING DEBUT NOVEL OF TWO IMMIGRANT VIETNAMESE FAMILIES YEARNING FOR RECONCILIATION, REDEMPTION, AND A PLACE TO CALL HOME



Cherry Truong's parents have exiled her wayward older brother from their Southern California home, sending him to Vietnam to live with distant relatives. Determined to bring him back, twenty-one-year-old Cherry travels to their homeland and finds herself on a journey to uncover her family's decades-old secrets hidden loves, desperate choices, and lives ripped apart by the march of war and currents of history.

The Reeducation of Cherry Truong is a story of two spirited and unforgettable families, the Truongs and the Vos.

? For readers of Maxine Hong Kingston and Gish Jen