TY - BOOK AU - Nguyẽ̂n,Phan Qué̂ Mai TI - The mountains sing: a novel SN - 9781616208189 PY - 2020/// CY - Chapel Hill, North Carolina PB - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 KW - Fiction KW - Families KW - Vietnam KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcgft KW - Historical fiction N1 - The tallest mountains -- Red on the white grains -- The fortune teller -- Getting up and falling down again -- The great hunger -- My father's gift -- The land reform -- The journey south -- The walk -- My mother's secret -- Destination -- The country bumpkin boy -- The way to happiness -- My Uncle Minh -- Facing the enemy -- My grandmother's songs N2 - "The multigenerational tale of the Trà̂n family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trà̂n Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Nội, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hồ Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that will tear not just her beloved country but her family apart"-- ER -