TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tran,E.M.
TI  - Daughters of the new year: a novel 
SN  - 9781335429230
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
PB  - Hanover Square Press
KW  - Sisters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Vietnamese Americans
KW  - Children of immigrants
KW  - Families
KW  - Fate and fatalism
KW  - Zodiac
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Novels
N2  - In New Orleans, three daughters of a former beauty queen and Vietnamese refugee obsessed with zodiac signs are trying to go about their modern lives, but begin to encounter strange glimpses of long-buried secrets from their ancestors; What does the future hold for those born in the years of the Dragon, Tiger, and Goat? In present day New Orleans, Xuan Trung, former beauty queen turned refugee after the Fall of Saigon, is obsessed with divining her daughters' fates through their Vietnamese zodiac signs. But Trac, Nhi and Trieu diverge completely from their immigrant parents' expectations. Successful lawyer Trac hides her sexuality from her family; Nhi competes as the only woman of color on a Bachelor-esque reality TV show; and Trieu, a budding writer, is determined to learn more about her familial and cultural past. As the three sisters begin to encounter strange glimpses of long-buried secrets from the ancestors they never knew, the story of the Trung women unfurls to reveal the dramatic events that brought them to America. Moving backwards in time, E.M. Tran takes us into the high school classrooms of New Orleans, to Saigon beauty pageants, to twentieth century rubber plantations, traversing a century as the Trungs are both estranged and united by the ghosts of their tumultuous history
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